NLP Tools Contest on Anaphora Resolution in Indian Languages, 2011

The ICON2011 tools contest is on Anaphora Resolution in Indian languages (IL). Any entity that is referred to another entity preceding it is called an anaphor. The referent to the anaphor is termed as the antecedent. The identification of the antecedent of an anaphora automatically is anaphora resolution.

The Contest
Participants will be provided training, development and test data to report the efficiency of their Anaphora Resolution System. Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu languages will be explored. The task of the contest is to identify the antecedents for an anaphor from a POS, NP Chunked and NE tagged corpus. Efficiency of the system is measured using Precision and Recall. Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results in a special session at ICON 2011.

Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results in a special session at ICON 2011.

The Contest will have two prizes :
         FIRST PRIZE: Rs.7500/-
         SECOND PRIZE: Rs.5000/-