There will be 2 contests at ICON 2011. The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowship at major NLP Centres in India.
NLP Tools Contest on Anaphora Resolution in Indian Languages
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.
Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000
For more information about the contest, please click here.
Student Paper Competition In Language Technologies
ICON-2011 announces a Student Paper Competition in two tracks:
Track I: NLP (All areas)
Track II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)
Paper Format
Papers in electronic form can be submitted ONLY in PDF format.
Link to online Student Paper Track Submissions:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icon2011
Submission Guidelines: Download
Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on
original work carried out.
Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000
The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in the conference.
Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper.
Upto 2 winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact the Student Paper Competition Chair on icon2011@iiit.ac.in.
