Latest workshop updates
9 May 2012
Accepted Paper List
Accepted Paper List is now available.
28 Mar 2012
Submission of Results closes
Submission of Results has been closed.
20 Mar 2012
Submission of results extends
Submission of results will be extended until 25 March 2012 23:59 Singapore Time
20 Mar 2012
Shared task results are available
Shared tasks results are now available.
14 Mar 2012
Result Submission Portal
Result Submission Portal is now open.
12 Mar 2012
Test data for transliteration generation tasks is available
Test data is available for transliteration generation tasks. It can be downloaded from corpora page. You can only download test data for the tasks to which you have registered by downloading or requesting training and development data.
11 Mar 2012
Registration Closed
Registration has been closed.
16 Feb 2012
English to Persian (EnPe) Corpus
The mappings of Persian character to its code used in the NEWS 2012 evaluation are:
3 Feb 2012
Persian data
Note: If you use Persian data, please cite the following paper:
S. Karimi, A. Turpin, F. Scholer, Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems, The 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), pages 640-647, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007
27 Jan 2012
Notes: EnJa, EnKo, JnJk, and ArEn Corpus from CJK Institute
Participants are required to obtain the license of Training and Development data for EnJa, EnKo, JnJk, and ArEn language pairs at a nominal fee of USD 300.00 from CJK Institute directly after filled up online request forms.
If you are interested in the above 4 subtasks, a flat licensing fee USD 300.00 is applied for up to four datasets.
In other words, you still need to pay the licensing fee US$300 even if you are only interested in one dataset.
20 Jan 2012
Training and development corpora for each language pair are now available
Training and development corpora for each language pair are now available. English-Japanese (EnJa, JnJk), English-Arabic (ArEn) and English-Korean (EnKo) corpora are obtained via request from CJK Institute; other corpora can be downloaded from this website after agreeing to the license terms and conditions of the data owners.
Please make sure you must submit your final runs after you download the NEWS 2012 datasets !
Pleae use the password we emailed to you to extract online downloaded corpus datasets !
19 Jan 2012
Whitepaper on Machine Transliteration
The Whitepaper on Machine Transliteration is available.
18 Jan 2012
Registration Opens
Registration is now available.Pleae provide valid Email address to receive a password to extract corpus datasets !
Registration to task is required !
Please make sure you must submit your final runs after you download the NEWS 2012 datasets !
18 Jan 2012
Paper Submission Portal
Paper Submission Portal is now available.
4 Jan 2012
Important dates
Important dates for research paper, shared task and task paper are now available.
3 Jan 2012
Accepted by ACL2012
The 4th Named Entities Workshop (NEWS) 2012 - Shared Task on Transliteration has been accepted and scheduled on 12 July at Jeju, Republic of Korea in the ACL 2012.
6 Dec 2011
Website Built Up
NEWS Group Website has been built up