FactA @ EVALITA 2016

Event Factuality Annotation

The FactA task at EVALITA 2016 aims at providing a complete evaluation framework for event factuality profiling, a crucial aspect of event interpretation. An event reported in a text can be interpreted as factual (i.e. the event took place), counterfactual (i.e. the event did not take place) or non-factual (i.e. the event is speculative).

The factuality value of an event results from three aspects, i.e. the certainty of the source, the time of the event, and its polarity.

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The Main Task of FactA focuses on the newswire domain; the training and test datasets are both composed of news articles. In addition to this, we also propose a Pilot Task on factuality profiling on social media texts (in particular, Tweets).

IMPORTANT DATES



IMPORTANT DATES

April 1st, 2016: Call for Interest opens

April 20th, 2016: Call for Interest closes

May 15th, 2016: Online registration opens

May 30th, 2016: Development data available to participants

September 12th, 2016: Test data available, registration closes

September 19th, 2016: System results due to organizers

September 26th, 2016: Assessment returned to participants

October 19th, 2016: Technical reports due to organizers

December 7th, 2016: Final workshop (after CLIC-2016)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

April 1st, 2016: Call for Interest opens

April 20th, 2016: Call for Interest closes

May 15th, 2016: Online registration opens

May 30th, 2016: Development data available to participants

September 12th, 2016: Test data available, registration closes

September 19th, 2016: System results due to organizers

September 26th, 2016: Assessment returned to participants

October 19th, 2016: Technical reports due to organizers

December 7th, 2016: Final workshop (after CLIC-2016)