Name of the Organisation : International Institute of Information Technology, (ltrc.iiit.ac.in)
Type of Announcement : International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2013) Contests

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The 10th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2013) will be held at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida, India during 18-20 December, 2013. The ICON conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad. The main conference is on December 19-20 December 2013. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials and workshops on December 18, 2013.

contests for Participants :
The ICON 2013 tools contest is on Named Entity Recognition in Indian languages (IL). The NER involves the identification of proper names from the texts and classification of them into some predefined categories of interest such as Person, Location, Organization, Miscellaneous (date, time, percentages, monetary expressions etc.). This is an important component for many NLP applications such as Machine Translation, Question-Answering, Automatic Summarization, Information Extraction etc.

NLP Tools Contest on Named Entity Recognition in Indian languages in Indian Languages

The ICON 2013 tools contest is on Named Entity Recognition in Indian languages (IL). The NER involves the identification of proper names from the texts and classification of them into some predefined categories of interest such as Person, Location, Organization, Miscellaneous (date, time, percentages, monetary expressions etc.). This is an important component for many NLP applications such as Machine Translation, Question-Answering, Automatic Summarization, Information Extraction etc.

The Contest :
Participants will be provided training, development and test data to report the efficiency of their NER system for the Indian languages (likely to be Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu). The datasets may be provided with some additional information like PoS and chunk. Efficiency will be measured in terms of Recall, Precision and F-measure. Shortlisted candidates will present their techniques and results in a special session at ICON 2013.

SCHEDULE:
Release of training and development datasets: August 30, 2013
Release of test data: October 01, 2013
Deadline for System submission: October 30, 2013
Date for Report Submission: November 15, 2013.

Prizes :
1st Prize: Rs. 7,500
2nd Prize: Rs. 5,000

Student Paper Competition In Language Technologies
ICON-2013 announces a Student Paper Competition in two tracks:
Track I: NLP (All areas)
Track II: Linguistics (Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)

Link to online Student Paper Track Submissions:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icon2013

Submission Guidelines:
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. The prizes are ::
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 the conference.
Registration, domestic travel and subsistence expenses will be provided by the conference organizers for one author of each paper.

Upto 2 winners will be offered summer fellowships at major NLP Centres in India. For any clarifications, contact the Student Paper Competition Chair on icon2013@iiit.ac.in.