* BUCC proceedings online * Post hoc participation in the shared task still possible any time
Dear Colleagues, It may be of interest to some of you that this year, on the planned date (May 11, 2020), the LREC Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (13th edition with shared task on Bilingual Dictionary Induction from Comparable Corpora) took place for the first time as a free online event with a record number of participants. The presentations including Q&A sessions were conducted live (without recordings) using the open source web conferencing system BigBlueButton. According to a few short surveys conducted at the end of the workshop, the participants seemed to be happy with the outcome. The workshop website is at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/ The proceedings can be found at https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/media/proceedings/Workshops/Books/BUCC2020book.pdf and will be soon moved to the ACL anthology. In addition to a number of regular papers, the proceedings include an overview paper on the shared task as well as system description papers from the participating teams. We will keep the data provided for the shared task (corpora, embeddings, datasets of word translations) online on the shared task description page at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2020/bucc2020-task.html So you can still test your systems using this data, and if you contact us we will be happy to evaluate your results using the original evaluation datasets. (The same applies for the previous BUCC shared task on parallel sentence extraction from comparable corpora.) We would like to thank the LREC team (including Nicoletta Calzolari and Khalid Choukri), the invited speakers (Holger Schwenk and Jörg Tiedemann), and all authors and participants for making the online event possible! With kind regards, Reinhard Rapp, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Serge Sharoff
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