III UNL Olympiad (March 2014)

Thursday, 05 December 2013 18:18 Ronaldo Martins
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The UNL Olympiad is a series of competitions organised by the UNDL Foundation in order to foster the development of UNL-driven resources (dictionaries, grammars and corpora). The third edition of the Olympiad is devoted to the development of grammars and dictionaries for UNLizing (with IAN) and NLizing (with EUGENE) the corpus derived from the project UGO-A1.

Important dates

Preparatory phases

Competition

Preparatory Phases (until Feb 15th, 2014)

Participation in preparatory phases is open to all candidates and is not compulsory, provided that at least one user of the working language completes the project UGO-A1.

UGO-A1

The first phase of the III UNL Olympiad is the project UGO-A1, which is open and funded for all languages. This project will set the corpus and the reference for UNLization and NLization. It consists of 250 UNL graphs that must be NLized (i.e., generated into natural language, manually). This process must be done only once for each language, i.e., it is not necessary (nor possible) that all users address the 250 UNL graphs. The progress report of the project UGO-A1 with the number of available entries is available at UNLWEB>PROJECTS>UGO-A1>PROGRESS REPORT.

Open Discussion

The second phase of the III UNL Olympiad will consist in an open discussion of the results of the project UGO-A1. All users will be able to propose the inclusion, suppression or modification of the NLizations proposed to the UNL graphs, in order to avoid any biases and privileges for specific users.

Oficial Release

The official corpus and set of languages, resulting from the preparatory phases, will be released on Feb 15th, 2014.

Competition (from Feb 16th to Apr 15th, 2014)

Goals

The III UNL Olympiad has two main goals:

UNLization is the process of representing, into UNL, the information conveyed by a natural language document. NLization, conversely, is the process of representing, in natural language, the information conveyed by a UNL document. These are done, respectively, with IAN and EUGENE, which are engines available at the UNLdev.

Modalities

The competition is organised in two modalities:

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 official list released on Feb 15th.

Prizes

Prizes are awarded to the best grammars of each modality (UNLization and NLization) for each language:

Additionally, the 10 best UNLization grammars in general (i.e., among all languages) and the 10 best NLization grammars in general will be awarded with USD500.00 each.

Corpus

The corpus will be extracted from the results of the project UGO-A1 and will be officially released on Feb 15th, 2015.

Further information

Further instructions are available at www.unlweb.net/wiki/III_UNL_Olympiad

Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 February 2014 15:54