Timeline

January 28

Announcement of the shared task and set up of the shared task website. Registration for the Shared Task open.

February 15

Deadline for suggesting additional data by participants (registration required).

March 1

Trial data for a few languages will be available.

April 15

Training and development data will be released.

May 2

Baseline parsing models will be released.

May 2

Test data available in TIRA. Test phase starts.

July 1

Test phase ends.

July 3

Results will be announced.

July 10

Submission of system description papers.

July 22

Reviews due.

September 5

Final papers due.

September 24

Early registration for the conference.

October 31

Shared task slot at CoNLL, Brussels, Belgium (collocated with EMNLP).

Preliminary program of CoNLL

• 8:45-9:00 CoNLL Opening session
• 9:00-10.30 CoNLL Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies
  • 9:00-9:20 Main task overview talk (Dan)
  • 9:20-9:30 EPE task overview talk (Stephan)
  • 9:30-9:35 Teaser talk HIT-SCIR (LAS winner)
  • 9:35-9:40 Teaser talk UDPipe (MLAS and EPE winner)
  • 9:40-9:45 Teaser talk Turku (BLEX winner)
  • 9:45-10:30 Poster session (can overflow to coffee break)
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-12:30 CoNLL–SIGMORPHON 2018 Shared Task: Universal Morphological Reinflection
• 12:30-14:00 Lunch (outside)
• 14:00-… invited talks and rest of CoNLL (see the CoNLL website)

November 1

Universal Dependencies Workshop, Brussels, Belgium (also collocated with EMNLP).