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*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***





CLEF ProtestNews 2019


Extracting Protests from News Using Automated Methods



https://emw.ku.edu.tr/clef-protestnews-2019/





ProtestNews 2019 is a lab that is being organized as part of the Conference
and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 2019 (CLEF). The lab aims at extracting
protest event information from news articles across multiple countries
using machine learning (ML) and generalizable natural language processing
(NLP). This is a sub-task of our ERC-funded research, which aims to
generate a comparative protest databases for China, India, South Africa,
Mexico and Brazil (emw.ku.edu.tr). The lab aims at facilitating research in
line of improving generalizability of natural language processing systems.
Our objective is to develop text classification and information extraction
tools on one country and test them on data from different countries.





The results of our task will appear in the working notes proceedings,


published by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) and are presented in


the CLEF 2019. Time & Place:  09-12 September 2019, Lugano - Switzerland






Competition is organized using Codalab. Competition website :
https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22349





We offer three subtasks and target research areas involve but not limited
to:





-    Information Retrieval


-    Natural Language Processing


-    Machine Learning, Deep Learning


-    Big Data, Data Mining





with a focus on generalizability.





Tasks:


We split the ProtestNews task in three subtasks:


1) Task 1: News article classification as protest vs. non-protest is a
binary classification task that aims at discriminating between protest
event related news articles and any other news article. Task 1 forms the
basis of the subsequent tasks and is the first step towards extracting
protest  event related information from news articles.


2) Task 2: Event sentence detection aims at determining event sentences
that contain an event trigger or a mention of it. Event triggers refer to
the textual unit that makes a sentence to be annotated as an event sentence
and an event mention is any kind of mention to that event trigger. For
example; "In the attack that happened yesterday 20 people were injured."
and "Today, we received news that 2 people died in the hospital after the
incident." would be positive examples.


3) Task 3: Event information extraction is an event information extraction
task that targets mainly events. Information such as participants, time and
place of the event. So this task can be considered as a challenging Named
Entity Recognition task where the participants are expected to detect not
only the named entities found in the text but also be able to detect which
ones are related to event. F1 measure will be used to evaluate Task 3.





Subtasks two and three will be based on news articles that are labelled as
protest or not for subtask 1. Participants can choose to participate in one
or more of these subtasks independent of each other. The data from India
will be used for training and testing. Evaluations will be done using a
combination of the datasets from India and China.




Participation:


In order to participate go to the link and register (
http://clef2019-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). After signing and
submitting the form regarding the use of the competition data you have to
register to our competition through Codalab (
http://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/22349 ). Details regarding the
competition and all the important dates can be found on the competition
website.




Timeline:


Please register before April 26, 2019 (
http://clef2019-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/).


Initial Data release: April 1 (training and development sets already
released !!)



Intermediate Evaluations :

Cycle 1: Data Release, India: April 12 Submission deadline: April 19
Scores: April 20 Cycle 2: Data Release, China: April 22 Submission
deadline: May 1 Scores: May 2 Final Evaluation: Cycle 3 (final evaluation):
No new data. Submission deadline: May 10 Scores: May 11








*** ORGANIZERS ***


Ali Hürriyetoglu: [log in to unmask]


Deniz Yüret: [log in to unmask]


Erdem Yörük: [log in to unmask]


Çağrı Yoltar: [log in to unmask]


Burak Gürel: [log in to unmask]


Fırat Duruşan: [log in to unmask]


Osman Mutlu: [log in to unmask]


Arda Akdemir: [log in to unmask]


Theresa Gessler: [log in to unmask]


Peter Makarov: [log in to unmask]





*** STEERING COMMITTEE ***


Aline Villavicencio


Antal van den Bosch


Arzucan Özgür


Hristo Tanev


Kemal Oflazer


Sophia Ananiadou

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