[CFP] 1st Call for Participation - SemEval 2021 Task 11: NLPContributionGraph

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Dear colleagues and friends,

*We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation - SemEval 2021
Task 11: NLPContributionGraph*

*URL:* https://ncg-task.github.io/

*Overview:* Since scientific literature is growing at a rapid rate and
researchers today are faced with this publications deluge, it is
increasingly tedious, if not practically impossible to keep up with the
research progress even within one's own narrow discipline. The Open
Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) <https://doi.org/10.1145/3360901.3364435>
is posited as a solution to the problem of keeping track of research
progress minus the cognitive overload that reading dozens of full papers
impose. It aims to build a comprehensive knowledge graph that publishes the
research contributions of scholarly publications per paper, where the
contributions are interconnected via the graph even across papers. Within
the NLPContributionGraph Shared Task, we have formalized the building of
such a scholarly contributions-focused graph over NLP scholarly articles.


SemEval 2021 Task 11: NLPContributionGraph (NCG) provides participants with
a dataset of NLP scholarly articles with their “contributions” information
structured to be integrable within Knowledge Graph infrastructures such as
the ORKG <https://www.orkg.org/orkg/>. The annotation data elements
include: (1) contribution sentences - a set of sentences about the
contribution in the article; (2) scientific terms and relations - a set of
scientific terms and relational cue phrases extracted from the contribution
sentences; and (3) triples - semantic statements that pair scientific terms
with a relation, modeled toward subject-predicate-object RDF statements for
KG building. The task is to automatically extract these elements given a
new NLP article.

NCG will be divided into three evaluation phases:

- Evaluation Phase 1: End-to-end evaluation phase;

- Evaluation Phase 2, Part 1: Phrase Extraction Testing;

- Evaluation Phase 2, Part 2: Triples Extraction Testing

*Codalab site:* https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/25680


*Dates*

Trial data available: July 31, 2020
Training data available: October 1, 2020
Test data available/Evaluation starts: January 10, 2021
Evaluation ends: January 31, 2021
Paper submission due: February 23, 2021
Notification to authors: March 29, 2021
Camera ready due: April 5, 2021
SemEval workshop: Summer 2021

*Task Organizers*

Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
- Germany)
Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology -
Germany)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota in Duluth - USA)

*We look forward to having you on board!*

*Contact:* ncg.task [at] gmail.com