Sighan Bakeoff

The Fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff will be jointly held with the First CIPS Chinese Language Processing Evaluation in the summer of 2007, and co-organized by SIGHAN, ChineseLDC, and the Verifying Centre of Chinese Language and Character Standards of the State Language Commission of P.R.C. In addition to the classic Word Segmentation task and Named Entity Recognition task, Chinese POS-tagging will also be evaluated in this bakeoff. The results will be presented in the SIGHAN-6 Workshop.

The bakeoff is coordinated by Dr. Guangjin Jin of the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China. Questions on the bakeoff should be addressed to: gorillax@126.com. Further information of the bakeoff can be found at http://www.china-language.gov.cn/ bakeoff08/bakeoff-08_basic.html.