The UNDL Foundation has launched the II UNL Olympiad, which is devoted to the the development of grammars for the corpus UC-A1, comprising 100 sentences. The competition is open to any participant, and the deadline is July 1st, 2013.
Modalities
The competition is organised in two modalities:
- Best UNLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
- Best NLization Grammar for <LANGUAGE>
Where <LANGUAGE> is one of the languages participating in this Olympiad (see the complete list below).
Candidates may participate in one or two modalities, i.e., they may work with the UNLization grammar, with the NLization grammar, or with both.
Candidates may also participate in one or more languages, provided that they belong to the list below.
Prizes
Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization and NLization) for each language:
- 1st place: Gold Medal
- 2nd place: Silver Medal
- 3rd place: Bronze Medal
Additionally, the 10 best UNLization grammars and the 10 best NLization grammars will be awarded with USD500.00 each..
Registration
Candidates must upload their files to www.unlweb.net/olympiad/registration before 23:59:59 (UTC) of July 1st, 2013. The list of files is available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/Olympiad.
Evaluation
Grammars will be evaluated and ranked according to the following criteria:
- Best F-measure
- Scalability (i.e., extendibility, or the capacity of being reused to other corpora), in case of grammars with the same F-Measure
- Date of submission, in case of grammars with the same F-Measure and equally scalable
Languages
The I UNL Olympiad will be dedicated to the development of grammars for the following languages:
- Afrikaans
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Bulgarian (NLization only)
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Estonian
- German
- Greek (Modern)
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Khmer
- Laotian
- Latin
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Manipuri
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya (NLization only)
- Persian
- Punjabi
- Sanskrit
- Serbian
- Sindhi
- Sinhala
- Slovenian
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
Candidates may participate in one or more languages above.
Instructions
For detailed instructions, see www.unlweb.net/wiki/Olympiad.
Further information
For further information, please contact:
Ronaldo Martins, PhD
Language Resources Manager
UNDL Foundation
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