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 setting new state-of-the-art results for the Natural Language Processing community, involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. IberLEF is co-located with the SEPLN Conference, which in 2020 will be held in Málaga (Spain) from the 23rd to the 25th of September 2020 as part of CEDI.

Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit proposals for evaluation tasks that involve text processing in at least one of the languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.

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 take up.
  • Related evaluation activities, if any.
  • Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what is the roadmap and what are the novelties for 2020?
• 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, etc.
• Tentative schedule (note that camera ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 5, 2020).
• 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 organisers duties

Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to:

1. Setup the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal.
2. Promote the task within the target research community.
3. 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.
4. Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise for the IberLEF proceedings.
5. Attend (at least one organizer) IberLEF 2020 in Málaga and present the results of the task.

Task selection procedure

Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by December 23, 2020.

Proceedings

IberLEF 2020 Proceedings including description of the tasks and participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task organizers are expected to send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by September 5, 2020.

Important dates

Task proposals due: December 1, 2019.

Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2019.

Camera ready submissions due (updated due to COVID-19): September 6, 2020

IberLEF: September, 2020 collocated with SEPLN 2020 and CEDI 2020 (Congreso Español de Informática)