contests for participants
NLP TOOLS CONTEST: Parsing
Efficient Indian language (IL) parsing still remains an open problem. One reason for this is the unavailability of annotated corpora to experiment. This contest aims to bring together researchers working/interested in the area of IL parsing to explore techniques that can improve the present accuracies, by providing sufficient annotated data. This contest, however, will only focus on dependency parsing.
The Contest
Participants will be provided training, development and testing data to report the efficiency of their dependency parsers. Languages such as Hindi, Bangla, Oriya, Marathi, etc. will be explored. Parser efficiency will be measured in terms of standard measures such as Unlabelled attachment accuracy and Labelled attachment accuracy. Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results work in a special session at ICON. Note that it is not necessary that the participating parser be a statistical one, other types such as grammar driven parsers or hybrid parsers can also participate.
Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000
For more information about the contest, please click here.
STUDENT PAPER CONTEST: Language Technologies
ICON-2009 announces a Student Paper Competition in two tracks:
Track I: NLP (All areas)
Track II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)
Papers may be submitted under the link on the web page. Prizes will be awarded in each track for up to two papers based on original work carried out.
Prizes
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000
The short-listed papers in each track will be invited for presentation in a special session in ICON-2009 conference. Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper. Up to two winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact Student Paper Competition Chair on icon09students@iiit.ac.in.
organizing bodies
latest updates
23rd nov 2009
The technical schedule has been released. 
23rd nov 2009
Click here for details of the panel discussion.
contact us
ICON-2009 Secretariat
Language Technologies Research Centre
International Institute of Information Technology
Gachibowli
Hyderabad - 500032, India
Tel: +91-40.23001412
Fax: +91-40.66531413
icon2009@iiit.ac.in