Overview of PAN 2012
Call for Participation
We invite you to take part in one of the following competitions:
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Plagiarism Detection
This task features a new plagiarism corpus based on the ClueWeb09,
the new search engine ChatNoir which indexes this corpus,
the cloud-based evaluation architecture TIRA,
and for the first time, real plagiarism cases.
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Author Identification
This task focuses on identifying sexual predators in chat logs,
and on authorship verification.
For the first time, real cases of disputed authorship will be used.
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Quality Flaw Prediction in Wikipedia
This task is newly introduced a generalization of vandalism detection; it is
about identifying Wikipedia articles that contain certain information
quality flaws.
Registration
The official registration has not yet opened; early birds may register via pan@webis.de.
Also, please join our mailing list in order to stay up to date on any developments.
Keynotes
Two keynotes about cross-language plagiarism detection will be held at the conference:
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Roberto Navigli
Università La Sapienza, Roma
Talk title:
Babelplagiarism: What can BabelNet do for Cross-language Plagiarism Detection?
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Ralf Steinberger
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra
Talk title:
Cross-lingual Similarity Calculation for Plagiarism Detection and More - Tools and Resources
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Organizing Committee
Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Tim Gollub, and Maik Anderka
Webis @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Rosso, and Parth Gupta
NLEL @ Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Efstathios Stamatatos
University of the Aegean
Moshe Koppel
Bar-Ilan University
Shlomo Argamon
Illinois Institute of Technology
Patrick Juola
Duquesne University
Giacomo Inches and Fabio Crestani
IRGroup @ University of Lugano
