Trial data for the upcoming Senseval event is now availalble at: http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/
The training/test period will be Feb 26-April 1, which the workshop where results will be revealed to take place in Prague with ACL in June. There are a number of tasks for which we already have systems available, including : Evaluating Word Sense Induction and Discrimination Systems http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/tasks/task02/summary.shtml (SenseClusters) Web People Search http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/tasks/task13/summary.shtml (SenseClusters) Coarse-grained English all-words http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/tasks/task07/summary.shtml (SenseRelate-AllWords) Various lexical sample tasks http://nlp.cs.swarthmore.edu/semeval/tasks/index.shtml (SenseRelate-TargetWord) Training and evaluation data will be available as of Feb 26, with results to be submitted around April 1. I anticipate participating in a number of the above, and am tenatively planning on attending ACL in Prague so as to attend the workshop. So, if you have any interest in participating in any of the above, please let me know fairly soon so we can start to make plans. Note that I will be out of town Feb 16-26, so it would be best to let me know prior to Feb 15. Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
