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Preface on the Second
Workshop on Evaluation of
Human Language
Technologies for Iberian
Languages (IberEval 2017)

IberEval workshop aiming at encouraging and promoting the development of
Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Iberian Languages (Spanish, Por-
tuguese, Catalan, Basque and Galician), by creating series of evaluation and
a discussion forum about Natural Language Processing systems on an ongoing
basis.
    IberEval 2017 is held together with the XXXIII Congreso Internacional de
la Sociedad Espaola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2017)
in Murcia, Spain, on the 19th of Sep, 2017. It includes the following five tracks:

   • Biomedical Abbreviation Recognition and Resolution (BARR). This track
     has the aim to promote the development and evaluation of biomedical
     abbreviation identification systems.

   • Classification Of Spanish Election Tweets (COSET). The aim of this track
     is to classify a corpus of political tweets in 5 categories of classification.

   • Collective Elaboration of a Coreference Annotated Corpus for Portuguese
     Texts (Corref-PT). The general objective of the task is a collective elabo-
     ration of a Portuguese annotated corpora for nominal coreference in texts.

   • Multilingual Web Person Name Disambiguation (M-WePNaD). The ob-
     jective of this task is the disambiguation of person names from web search
     results, taking into account its multilingual nature.

   • Stance and Gender detection in tweets on Catalan Independence (Stance-
     Cat). The aim of this task is to detect the author’s gender and stance
     with respect to the target “independence of Catalonia” in tweets written
     in Spanish and/or Catalan.

    The 2017 edition of IberEval has had a high participation, in total 43 par-
ticipants shared out the different tracks.

   Sep 2017

                                                             Raquel Martı́nez
                                                                 Julio Gonzalo
                                                                   Paolo Rosso
                                                                Soto Montalvo
                                                    Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz

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