LINGUIST List 23.545 Thu Feb 02 2012 Confs: Forensic Ling, Computational Ling/Italy Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Martin Potthast , Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse Message 1: Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse Date: 31-Jan-2012 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: 17-Sep-2012 - 20-Sep-2012 Location: Roma, Italy Contact: Martin Potthast Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://pan.webis.de Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics Meeting Description: We invite you to take part in one of the following competitions: Plagiarism Detection: This task features a new plagiarism corpus based on the ClueWeb09, the new search engine ChatNoir which indexes this corpus, the cloud-based evaluation architecture TIRA, and for the first time, real plagiarism cases. Author Identification: This task focuses on identifying sexual predators in chat logs, and on authorship verification. For the first time, real cases of disputed authorship will be used. Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia: This task is newly introduced a generalization of vandalism detection; it is about identifying Wikipedia articles that contain certain information quality flaws. PAN CLEF: Call for Participation: We invite you to take part in one of the following competitions: 1. Plagiarism Detection This task features a new plagiarism corpus based on the ClueWeb09, the new search engine ChatNoir which indexes this corpus, the cloud-based evaluation architecture TIRA, and for the first time, real plagiarism cases. 2. Author Identification This task focuses on identifying sexual predators in chat logs, and on authorship verification as well as author clustering. For the first time, real cases of disputed authorship will be used. 3. Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia This task is newly introduced; it is about identifying Wikipedia articles that contain certain information quality flaws. It generalizes the vandalism detection task of last year. Find out about all the details at http://pan.webis.de. PAN is held in conjunction with the CLEF'12 conference in Roma, Italy. Important Dates Now open Registration Mar 16, 2012 Training data release Jun 01, 2012 Run submission Aug 10, 2012 Notebook submission Sep 17-20, 2012 Conference Organization: Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Maik Anderka, Tim Gollub, Matthias Hagen Webis Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, Parth Gupta NLEL Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Efstathios Stamatatos University of the Aegean Moshe Koppel Bar-Ilan University Shlomo Argamon Illinois Institute of Technology Patrick Juola Duquesne University Giacomo Inches and Fabio Crestani IRGroup University of Lugano Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 02-Feb-2012       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.