SQA 2018 - Scalable Question Answering

3rd-7th June 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
in conjunction with the 15th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018)
https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/
https://project-hobbit.eu/open-challenges/sqa-challenge-eswc-2018/

The key challenge for Scalable Question Answering over Linked Data is the need to translate a user’s information request into such a form that it can be efficiently evaluated using standard Semantic Web query processing and inferencing techniques.
Therefore, the main task of SQA Challenge is the following: given an RDF dataset and and a large volume of natural language questions or keywords, return the correct answers (or SPARQL queries that retrieves those answers).

Training dataset and documentation are available:
* Training dataset: https://figshare.com/articles/LC-QuAD_QALDformat/5818452
* Description: http://hobbitdata.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SQAOC/Documentation.txt
In the Scalable Question Answering Challenge (SQA) users can display the capabilities of their systems using the HOBBIT platform (https://project-hobbit.eu/outcomes/hobbit-platform) provided by the homonymous H2020 project.
Participants will be expected to describe their solution and results on the training datasets over a 5 page paper. In particular, a short summary of the approach chosen, a link to the experimental results and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the approach are expected.

Important Dates
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- Challenge papers submission deadline (5 pages document): Friday, March 30th, 2018
- Notifications sent to participants and invitations to submit task results: Monday April 30th, 2018
- Test data (and other participation tools) published: Monday, May 7th, 2018
- Camera ready papers for the conference (5 pages document): Monday, May 14th, 2018
- Instructions for evaluation: Monday, February 12th, 2018
- Deadline for submission of system answers (cut-off): Friday, June 1st, 2018
- Camera ready papers for the challenge proceedings (up to 15 pages): Friday, July 6th, 2018 (tentative deadline)
- Proclamation of winners: During ESWC2018 closing ceremony
- Eligible to submit papers are only authors participating in the challenge.

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Organization
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Giulio Napolitano, IAIS, Fraunhofer, Germany
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Paderborn, Germany
Ricardo Usbeck, University of Paderborn, Germany
Grigorios Tzortzis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
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Further Information and Contact
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For detailed information including datasets and submission guidelines,
please visit the challenge website: https://project-hobbit.eu/open-challenges/sqa-challenge-eswc-2018/
Contact Email: Giulio.Napolitano@iais.fraunhofer.de