LINGUIST List 22.1385: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands

LINGUIST List 22.1385
Thu Mar 24 2011 Confs: Forensic Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Martin Potthast , Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse Message 1: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse
Date: 14-Feb-2011 From: Martin Potthast <martin.potthastuni-weimar.de> Subject: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse E-mail this message to a friend Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse Short Title: PAN Date: 19-Sep-2011 - 22-Sep-2011 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact: Martin Potthast Contact Email: panwebis.de Meeting URL: http://pan.webis.de Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Meeting Description: The 5th International Workshop on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse PAN'11 will be held as competition in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 19- 22, 2011. Call for Participation Competition on: Plagiarism Detection, Author Identification, and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 19-22 http://pan.webis.de (held in conjunction with the CLEF'11 conference) This year's edition divides into three tasks, namely plagiarism detection, author identification, and Wikipedia vandalism detection. Plagiarism detection in text documents is a challenging retrieval task: today's detection systems are faced with intricate situations, such as paraphrased plagiarism within and across languages. Moreover, the source of a plagiarism case may be hidden within a large collection of documents such as the Web, or it may not be available at all. Building on the successful evaluation framework developed in the last two years, we continue to add new challenges this year. Author identification is the task of determining the true author of a text. Throughout history and especially today, many texts are written anonymously or under false names, so that readers may not be certain of a text's alleged author. Within author identification, one of the main challenges is to automatically attribute a text to one of a set of known candidate authors. For the purpose of the evaluation, we have developed a new authorship evaluation corpus. Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia's biggest problems. However, the detection of vandalism is done mostly manually by volunteers, and research on automatic vandalism detection is still in its infancy. Hence, solutions are to be developed which aid Wikipedians in their efforts. We invite researchers and practitioners from all fields to participate. Important Dates Registration May 31, 2011: Result submission deadline Jun 30, 2011: Notebook submission deadline Sep 19-22, 2011: Conference Organization Webis Bauhaus-Universität Weimar http://www.webis.de NLEL Universidad Politécnica de Valencia http://www.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle Efstathios Stamatatos, University of the Aegean http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/lecturers/stamatatos Moshe Koppel, Bar-Ilan University http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology http://lingcog.iit.edu/~argamon/ Patrick Juola, Duquesne University http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/~juola/ Contact E-mail: panwebis.de Campaign Web page: http://pan.webis.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. 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