Call for Participation: NLPTEA2017 Shared Task for Chinese Spelling Check

You are cordially invited to participate in the Shared Task of the 4th Workshop on NLP Techniques for Educational Applications, NLPTEA2017 (https://www.labviso.com/nlptea2017/). NLPTEA2017 is one of the workshops in the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP2017 ，Taipei, Taiwan, China(http://ijcnlp2017.org/).

The goal of this task is to develop a computer-assisted system to automatically diagnose typing errors in Chinese sentences. Given a sentence, the system should identify all errors, indicate which kind of errors they are, and offer correction suggestions. More detail: https://www.labviso.com/nlptea2017/

Technical Report and Submission Format

Each participant must submit a technical report to describe the developed method and its testing results. The report will appear in the workshop proceedings and online archives.

At least one author of each accepted report will be required to register for presenting the developed system. This is the most valuable part of participating, as authors will be able to engage attendees in extended conversations about their work.

Certificates and Trophy

Each participant will receive a certificate of participation, and the team with the best overall performance will receive a trophy. Hope to see everyone in Taipei :).

Important Dates

- Registration open: May 19, 2017

- Release of training data: June 02, 2017

- Release of golden standard (training data): June 12, 2017

- Release of evaluation script: June 12, 2017

- Registration close: August 20, 2017

- Release of testing data: August 21, 2017

- Testing results submission due: August 23, 2017

- Release of golden standard (testing data): August 25, 2017

- Release of testing results: August 25, 2017

- Technical report submission due: September 12, 2017

- Report reviews returned: September 30, 2017

- Camera-ready due: October 10, 2017

URL

NLPTEA2017 Shared Task: https://www.labviso.com/nlptea2017

IJCNLP2017: http://ijcnlp2017.org/

Shared Task Organizers

Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jia Zhu, South China Normal University

Sponsors

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) (http://www.astri.org/)

Lab Viso Limited (https://www.labviso.com/)