Paper Submission

Content Guidelines

• Along with the paper, it is mandatory to submit the code that generated the submitted runs. Instructions on how to submit the code will be communicated later.

• The paper title should follow the following template: <TeamID> at Qur'an QA 2022: <Title>. An example title is "bigIR at Qur'an QA 2022: A CRF Model for Finding Answers to Questions from Qur'an".

• The paper should cover (among other standard sections) the following:

  • Approach: system overview, models, training, external resources, etc. Please make sure that you give enough details about your approach.

  • Experimental Evaluation: results on the dev set, official results on the test set, analysis/discussion of the results, etc. You can also report and analyze the results of other runs that you didn’t officially submit.

• For ease of approach reproducibility (and faster learning by others), you are strongly encouraged to release your code and make it publicly available. If so, please indicate that in your paper and provide a public link.

Code Submission Guidelines

• Put your code files into a .zip file.

• Add a readme file within the zip file that explains your code structure and how to replicate the results reported in the paper.

• On the submission page of the START system, you can upload the code within the "LRE map" section.

• Feel free to fill in some information about your code, then tick "Share Your LRs" check box. That will enable you to upload your zip file (maximum 20 MB). If your file is bigger than that, you have to provide an URL from where the file can be downloaded.

Formatting Guidelines

• Papers must use LREC template and comply to the LREC stylesheet.

• Papers must be written in English.

• Papers must be 4 to 8 pages long, excluding references and appendices (the number of appendix pages should remain reasonable though).

• All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The review is single-blind. So, the submissions are NOT anonymous, i.e., you need to add the author names on the first page of the submitted paper.

• Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format.

• When submitting a paper at the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper.

• All authors are encouraged to share the described LRs (i.e., language resources, such as data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

Please check out the FAQ page before asking any question regarding the submission.