Microblog Cultural Contextualization 2017 lab introduction

These are the slides used to presented at CLEF 2016 in Evora to introduce the CM2 lab.

Overall Procedure

1. Take a microblog about an event with an url.
2. Identify its language.
3. Identify a related cultural event or filter it out.
4. Reveal When, Where, Who ...
5. Relate it to Wikipedia entities

2017 Organization

• Task 1: language, filtering and localization lead by Toulouse, Montréal and Paris starts … now!
• Task 2: entity extraction, summarization and linking starts in November 2016 lead by Avignon, London University and Syllabs.
• Task 3: time-line illustration starts in January 2017 lead by Grenoble.

More inside the slides ...