Date: 02-Mar-2007 From: Helene Mazo <mazoelda.org> Subject: CLEF-QAst evaluation campaign - 2nd CFP
CLEF-QAst evaluation campaign Second call for participation
QAst is a new CLEF-QA track that aims to provide an evaluation framework for Question Answering technology (currently just factual QA) on speech transcripts, both manual and automatic. A detailed description of this track is available here: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast.
The pilot track is organized jointly by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), the Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) and Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI).
The participation is free of charge.
Important dates: - 30 January 2007: development set released - 15 June 2007: evaluation set released - 30 June 2007: submission deadline - 20 August 2007: paper submission deadline - 19-21 September 2007: workshop
If you are interested in participating please send an email to Jordi Turmo (turmo_AT_lsi.upc.edu) with ''QAst'' in the subject line.