[AISWorld] [Call for Task Participants] ATE_ABSITA Task at EVALITA 2020

[Marco Polignano]

Apologies for cross-posting

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*Call for Participants*

** NEW: Extended Deadline 
(http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/ate_absita/dates.html)

** NEW: Released Leaderboard 
(http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/ate_absita/leaderboard.html)

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We are glad to announce *ATE_ABSITA*: Aspect Term Extraction and 
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Task *@EVALITA 2020 *is ready to wait 
for your contribution.
Sentiment Analysis (also known as Opinion Mining) is the task of 
identifying what the user thinks about a particular topic.
In particular, it often takes the form of an annotation task with the 
purpose of annotating a portion of text with a positive, negative, or 
neutral label.
Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is an evolution of Sentiment 
Analysis that aims at capturing the aspect-level opinions expressed in 
natural language texts.

As an evolution of the ABSITA Task, proposed at EVALITA 2018, we propose 
a new edition of it. It aims to resolve three subtasks:
1) *Aspect Term Extraction (ATE)*: It consists of identifying an 
"aspect" in an Italian product review without knowing a priori the list 
of possible aspects;
2) *Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)*: In this task, the polarity 
of each expressed aspect is recognized, e.g., a positive category.
3) *Sentiment Analysis (SA)*: is the task of identifying what the user 
thinks about the whole review.

The participants may choose to submit each of the three tasks independently.
Please note that for participating in the second task (ABSA), the output 
of the first one (ATE) is essential for proposing a solution for it.


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*How to participate:*

Fill in the EVALITA 2020 Registration Form: https://bit.ly/3fanuxj

Follow the guidelines on our website: 
http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/ate_absita/index.html

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbsitaAte


Further details are available here: http://www.evalita.it/2020


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*Important Dates *

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·*4th September 2020*: registration closes ( https://bit.ly/3fanuxj)

·*18th September 2020*: distribution (on the Task Web Page) of /datasets 
for testing/

·*18th - 25th September 2020*: evaluation windows and collection of 
participants' results

·*16th October 2020*: Deadline for submission of system description papers

·*6h November 2020: *technical reports due to organizers (camera-ready)**

*·**27th November 2020: *videos presentations to the Evalita chair**

*·**16th-17th December 2020: *final workshop



Further details will be made available in the near future.

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*Task Organizers*

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Lorenzo de Mattei, Ist. di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampoli" - 
ItaliaNLP, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Graziella de Martino, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli 
Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Andrea Iovine, Lucia Siciliani, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università 
degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Alessio Miaschi, Ist. di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampoli" - 
ItaliaNLP, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Marco Polignano, Lucia Siciliani, Dipartimento di Informatica, 
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Giulia Rambelli, Computational Linguistic Laboratory (Coling Lab), 
Università degli Studi di Pisa - Aix-Marseille University


If you have any questions, please contact us: 
ate.absita.evalita2020 at gmail.com <mailto:ate.absita.evalita2020 at gmail.com>