contests for participants
There will be 2 contests at ICON 2010. 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 fellowships at major NLP Centres in India.
2nd NLP TOOLS CONTEST on Indian Language Dependency Parsing
The ICON09 tools contest on Indian language (IL) dependency parsing was enthusiastically received among researchers. Many varied parsers were implemented, and baseline performance was set for Hindi, Telugu and Bangla. Crucial parsing issues, many IL specific, came to light and were discussed.
However, efficient Indian Language (IL) parsing still remains a challenging task. This contest aims to bring together researchers working/interested in the area of IL parsing to explore techniques that can further improve the present accuracies, by providing larger data sets for Hindi and more revised data for Telugu and Bangla.
The Contest
Participants will be provided training, development and testing data to report the efficiency of their dependency parsers. Hindi, Bangla, and Telugu will be explored. Parser efficiency will be measured in terms of standard measures such as Unlabelled Attachment Accuracy and Labelled Attachment Accuracy.
Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results work in a special session at ICON. Note that it is not necessary that the participating parser be a statistical one - other types, such as grammar driven parsers or hybrid parsers can also participate.
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-2010 announces a Student Paper Competition in two tracks:
Track I: NLP (All areas)
Track II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)
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 icon2010@iiit.ac.in.
organizing bodies
latest updates
4th Nov 2010
Complete list of accepted papers released.
2nd Nov 2010
The technical schedule has been released.
contact us
ICON-2010 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500032, India
Tel: +91-40.66531144
Fax: +91-40.66531413
icon2010@iiit.ac.in