CfP PAN 2013

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PAN @ CLEF: Call for Participation
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We invite you to take part in one of the following evaluations:

1. Plagiarism Detection — Given a document, is it an original?
This task is divided into source retrieval and text alignment.
Source retrieval is about searching for likely sources of a suspicious document.
Text alignment is about matching passages of reused text between documents.

2. Author Identification — Given a document, who wrote it?
This task focuses on authorship verification and methods to answer the question
whether two given documents have the same author or no. This question
accurately emulates the real-world problem that most forensic linguists face
every day.

3. Author Profiling — Given a document, what’s its author’s age / gender?
This task is concerned with predicting an author’s demographics from her
writing. Besides being personally identifiable, an author’s style may also
reveal her age and gender. Accurate predictors are of key interest to forensic
linguists and marketers alike.

Learn more at http://pan.webis.de.

PAN is held in conjunction with the CLEF’13 conference in Valencia, Spain.

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Important Dates
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now open Registration
Mar 31, 2012 Run submission
Jun 16, 2012 Notebook submission
Sep 23-26, 2012 Conference

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Organization
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Martin Potthast, Tim Gollub, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein
Webis @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Parth Gupta, Paolo Rosso
NLEL @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Efstathios Stamatatos
University of the Aegean

Moshe Koppel
Bar-Ilan University

Patrick Juola
Duquesne University

Giacomo Inches
IRGroup @ University of Lugano

Francisco Rangel
Autoritas Consulting