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CLIN26
December 17-18, 2015
Amsterdam
http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/clin26
Final Call for Abstracts and Call for Participation at Shared Task
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The 26th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 26) will be organised by the CLTL group of the VU University of Amsterdam. CLIN 26 will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on December 17-18, 2015.
Abstract submission information
Researchers are invited to submit, in English, abstracts describing work on all aspects of computational linguistics and related language and speech technologies and applications.
Submissions should include:
* Author(s) names, affiliation and contact details
* Presentation title
* An abstract of 250 words maximum, outlining their presentation
Abstracts should be submitted electronically, no later than Monday 12 October 2015 (midnight) via the submission website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clin26
Contact
For more information, visit the CLIN 26 website at http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/clin26/.
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STIL Thesis Prize
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Since CLIN 20, a special annual thesis prize, sponsored by STIL, is awarded to the best MA-thesis in computational linguistics. STIL is the Stichting Toepassing Inductieve Leertechnieken.
MA theses submitted to and evaluated at a university or organization of higher education in the Netherlands or Flanders are eligible for the prize. The thesis should address a topic in computational linguistics or its applications, and may be written in Dutch or English. For more information check http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/clin26/stil-thesis-prize/.
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CLIN26 Shared Tasks - Call for participation
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The CLIN26 Shared Task presents the first collocated Shared Task for Dutch!
Participants can join in one or more of the following tasks:
Entity Recognition
Entity Disambiguation
Event Detection
Event Factuality Classification
Entity coreference
Event coreference
Please direct any questions about the task or the data at clin26org [at] googlegroups.com.
Important dates
Development data release: August 29th
Evaluation data release: November 15th
System output due: November 30th
Results & presentations: December 17th/18th (during CLIN26)