Task description

Further to the successful pilot of OnForumS at MultiLing 2015, we are organizing the task again
in 2017 with a brand new dataset.  The OnForumS task investigates
how the mass of comments found on news providers web sites (e.g., The Guardian)
can be summarized. We posit that a crucial initial step towards that goal is to determine
what comments link to, be that either specific news snippets or comments by other users.
Furthermore, a set of labels for a given link may be articulated to capture phenomena
such as agreement and sentiment with respect to the comment target. Solving this labelled
linking problem can enable recognition of salience (e.g., snippets/comments with most links)
and relations between comments (e.g., agreement). The evaluation will focus on how many of
the links and labels were correctly identified, as in the previous OnForumS run.

Data

To be announced

Results

To be announced

Dates

To be announced