Competitions and Challenges

The competitions and challenges below are categorized by year. In cases in where an event begins in one year and ends in a later year, it is placed under the year in which it was or will be completed.

2008

CLEF 2008 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
NER-SSEAL 2008 - IJCNLP Workshop on NER for South and South East Asian Languages
TAC 2008 - Text Analysis Conference

2007

ACE 2007 - Automatic Content Extraction 2007
CLEANEVAL 2007 - Cleaning pages for Web corpus creation
CLEF 2007 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
DUC-2007 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
EVALITA 2007 - Evaluation of NLP Tools for Italian
Medical NLP Challenge - The Computational Medicine Center's 2007 Medical Natural Language Processing Challenge
Morpho Challenge 2007 - unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes
RTE-3 - Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge (RTE-3 Resources Pool)
SemEval-2007 - 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
SIAM Text Mining Competition - document classification
Spock Challenge - (task: name discrimination/disambiguation in Web text)
TREC 2007 Text REtrieval Conference

2006

CLEF 2006 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
DUC-2006 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
RTE-2 - Second Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
TREC 2006 Text REtrieval Conference

2005

CLEF 2005 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
DUC-2005 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
Morpho Challenge 2005 - unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemes
RTE-1 - Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge
TREC 2005 Text REtrieval Conference

2004

CLEF 2004 - Cross Language Evaluation Forum
DUC-2004 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)
Senseval 3 - evaluation exercises for Word Sense Disambiguation
TREC 2004 Text REtrieval Conference

2003

DUC-2003 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)

2002

DUC-2002 - Document Understanding Conference (task: Text Summarization)