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
- ACE 2008 - Automatic Content Extraction
- 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)