How to detect events in the news and count them?

We are running a new AI challenge on SemEval2018: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2018/index.php?id=tasks

Task 5: Counting events and event participants in news articles with a very ‘long tail’. If you are interested and if you want to try this, check out:

 

https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/17285

http://www.understandinglanguagebymachines.org/semeval-201…/

AI truly tested!

More information about this referential quantification task can be found in this handout or at the task website.