EVALITA 2011 - Second Call for Interest - http://www.evalita.it/2011/

Following the success obtained by the previous editions, we are pleased to announce EVALITA 2011, the third evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian.

For more information about the single tasks, please refer to the new EVALITA website: http://www.evalita.it/2011/

In particular, we intend to organize the following tasks:

Text tasks

- Parsing (Main Task)

- Domain Adaptation for Dependency Parsing (Pilot Task)

- Named Entity Recognition on Transcribed Broadcast News

- Cross-document Coreference Resolution of Named Person Entities

- Anaphora Resolution

- Super Sense Tagging

- Frame Labeling over Italian Texts

- Lemmatisation

Speech tasks

- Automatic Speech Recognition - Large Vocabulary Transcription

- Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation

- Forced Alignment on Spontaneous Speech

- Voice Applications on Mobile - Student Contest

We invite participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. If you are interested in participating in EVALITA 2011, please fill out the form at: http://www.evalita.it/2011/CFI

The results of the evaluation will be disseminated at the final workshop which will be organized in conjunction with the next AISV Conference (date and location to be announced).

Final reports describing the participating systems will appear in the workshop electronic proceedings. A post-workshop publication, e.g., in the form of a Springer LNCS/LNAI series volume, will be considered.

Your expressions of interest will be very important to help us organizing the evaluation campaign.

Based on the expressions of interest we receive, in fact, we will be able to confirm the organization of the single tasks.