IberLEF 2024 -- Call for Task Proposals

The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2023. 

Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef@googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields:

• Title of the task.

• Description of the task, highlighting:

  • Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved.

  • Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects.

  • Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup.

  • Related evaluation activities, if any.

  • Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are.

  • Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc.

• Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 11, 2024).

• Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events.

• Funding, if available.

• Contact person.

• Any other relevant issues.

Task organizers duties

Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to:

• Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal.

• Promote the task within the target research community.

• Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings.

• Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. 

• Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2024.

Task selection procedure

Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 26, 2024.

Proceedings

IberLEF 2024 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September 2024 issue. Task Organizers are expected to send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 11, 2024. 

Important dates

• Task proposals due: December 22, 2023.

• Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2024.

• Camera-ready submissions due: July 11, 2024. 

• IberLEF Workshop: September 2024. 

IberLEF general chairs:

Francisco Rangel, Symanto Research (Spain)

Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain)

Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Contact

E-mail: iberlef@googlegroups.com