shared task

Proceedings of the 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X) and the EmpiriST Shared Task The World Wide Web has become increasingly popular as a source of linguistic data, not only within the NLP communities, but also with … Paul Cook, Stefan Evert, Roland Schäfer, Egon Stemle (2016) PDF Cite

The EmpiriST 2015 shared task aims to encourage the developers of NLP applications to adapt their tools and resources for the processing of written German discourse in genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC) - such as chats, forums, wiki talk pages, tweets, blog comments, social networks, SMS and WhatsApp dialogues - as well as monological web pages - such as personal or professional blogs, Wikipedia articles, academic sites, etc.

EmpiriST2015 is a community shared task on tokenization and part-of-speech tagging of German CMC and social media data.Its goal is to encourage the developers of NLP applications to adapt their tools and resources for the processing of written CMC discourse.