Call for Shared Tasks Proposals

The topics of shared tasks include any technology and application of natural language processing (NLP), e.g., word segmentation, parsing, named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and question answering.  The conference welcomes impactful proposals dedicated to low-resource languages and multimodal NLP applications. The dates for the IJCNLP Shared Tasks will be December 1 (with the Post-Conference Workshops). 


Submission Information

The contents of a proposal should include the following (in 2–4 pages):

  • a brief description of the shared task,
  • a description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness,
  • a plan on how the submitted systems will be evaluated,
  • the impact of the tasks on the NLP community and on society, and
  • any other relevant information you consider necessary.

We recommend the shared task proposers follow the tentative timeline outlined below where feasible to allow sufficient development time for the participants.


Important Dates

The timeline for the shared task proposals is as follows.

  • Submission Deadline for Shared Task Proposals: April 1, 2017
  • Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2017

The timeline for organizing shared tasks is as follows.

  • Shared Task Website Ready: May 1, 2017
  • First Call for Participants Ready: May 1, 2017
  • Registration Begins: May 15, 2017
  • Release of Training Data: May 15, 2017 **
  • Dryrun: Release of Development Set: July 12, 2017 **
  • Dryrun: Submission on Development Set: July 19, 2017 **
  • Dryrun: Release of Scores: July 20, 2017 **
  • Registration Ends: August 11, 2017
  • Release of Test Set: August 14, 2017
  • Submission of Systems: August 21, 2017 **
  • System Results: August 31, 2017 **
  • System Description Paper Due: September 15, 2017
  • Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2017
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: October 10, 2017

      ** Flexible on each shared task's plan

           All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm UTC-7

For any question related to the proposals, please email the IJCNLP 2017 shared task co-chairs.  Please email your proposal to chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie. A confirmation email will be sent to you within one working day upon receipt of a submission.


Shared Task Co-Chairs

Chao-Hong Liu, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, pnakov@hbku.edu.qa
Nianwen Xue, Brandies University, xuen@brandeis.edu

 Important Dates

Program at a Glance

Pre-Conference Workshops and Tutorials:
November 27, 2017

Main Conferences:
November 28-30, 2017

Post-Conference Workshops and Shared Tasks:
December 1, 2017