LINGUIST List 21.2315 Fri May 21 2010 FYI: Machine Textual Entailment Recognition Challenge Editor for this issue: Rachelle Felzien <rachellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Danilo Giampiccolo, Machine Textual Entailment Recognition Challenge Message 1: Machine Textual Entailment Recognition Challenge Date: 19-May-2010 From: Danilo Giampiccolo <giampiccolocelct.it> Subject: Machine Textual Entailment Recognition Challenge E-mail this message to a friend Sixth Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge at the 2010 Text Analysis Conference: http://www.nist.gov/tac/2010/RTE/ Knowledge base population (KBP) validation pilot guidelines now available The deadline for the Text Analysis Conference 2010 track registration is May 21, although late submissions will be considered. Fore more information, contact tac-managernist.gov. The Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) task consists of developing a system that, given two text fragments, can determine whether the meaning of one text is entailed, i.e. can be inferred, from the other text. Since its inception in 2005, RTE has enjoyed a constantly growing popularity in the NLP community. After the first three highly successful PASCAL RTE Challenges campaigns held in Europe, in 2008 RTE became a track at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC), bringing it together with communities working on NLP applications. The interaction has provided the opportunity to apply RTE to specific application settings and move it towards more realistic scenarios. In particular, the RTE-5 Pilot Search Task represented a step forward, as for the first time textual entailment recognition was performed on a corpus, instead of isolated H-T pairs, and on a real NLP application, namely Summarization. Organizations interested in participating in the RTE-6 Challenge are invited to submit a track registration form by May 21, 2010, at the TAC 2010 web site: http://www.nist.gov/tac/2010/ FINAL SCHEDULE April 30 Main Task: Release of Development Set May 10 KBP Validation Pilot: Release of Development Set May 21 Deadline for TAC 2010 track registration August 17 KBP Validation Pilot: Release of Test Set August 30 Main Task: Release of Test Set September 9 Main Task: Deadline for task submissions September 16 Main Task: Release of individual evaluated results September 17 KBP Validation Pilot: Deadline for task submissions September 24 KBP Validation Pilot: Release of individual evaluated results September 26 Deadline for TAC 2010 workshop presentation proposals September 30 Main Task: Deadline for ablation tests submissions October 7 Main Task: Release of individual ablation test results October 20 Deadline for systems' reports TRACK COORDINATORS AND ORGANIZERS: Luisa Bentivogli , CELCT and FBK, Italy (Track coordinator, bentivofbk.eu) Danilo Giampiccolo, CELCT, Italy (Track coordinator, giampiccolocelct.it) Hoa Trang Dang, NIST, USA Ido Dagan , Bar Ilan University, Israel Peter Clark, Boeing, USA Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.