QALD-5: 5th Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data

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                         QALD-5

Fifth Open Challenge on Question Answering over Linked Data
          www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/qald
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Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce QALD-5, the fifth instalment of the open 
challenge on question answering over linked data. QALD-5 is part of the 
QA lab at CLEF 2015 (http://nlp.uned.es/clef-qa/) and puts a strong 
focus on multilinguality as well as on hybrid approaches using 
information from both structured and unstructured data.

The challenge is aimed at all systems that mediate between a user, 
expressing his or her information need in natural language (either as 
question or keywords, provided in seven languages: English, Spanish, 
Italian, French, German, Dutch, Romanian), and RDF data (in this case, 
DBpedia 3.10).

A full description of the challenge as well as the training data can be 
found at the following location:

http://greententacle.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~cunger/qald/index.php?x=challenge&q=5


Schedule
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Training phase starts now, the further schedule is as follows:

Release of test data: April 20, 2015
Submission deadline:  May 8, 2015
Release of evaluation results: May 15, 2015
Deadline for working notes submission: June 7, 2015
Workshop: September, 2015


Registration
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If you want to participate, please register for the CLEF 2015 QA lab at 
http://clef2015-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it.

Prizes
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Thanks to our sponsor Orange (http://www.orange.com/en/home), we are 
able to offer prizes for the top-scoring teams. More details will be 
announced soon.


We cordially invite everyone working on question answering over linked 
data to participate, and look forward to another exciting challenge!

With best regards,
   The QALD team

Received on Monday, 2 February 2015 08:37:55 UTC