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<span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Dear All,</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="text-align: justify;">We are very happy to invite you to the "</span><b class="">Question Answering Mediated by Visual Clues and Knowledge Graphs</b>”<b class=""> </b><span class="" style="text-align: justify;"> challenge, </span>LYON,
FRANCE (23 - 27 April 2018). Please see information below.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">WWW 2018 LYON, FRANCE (23 - 27 April 2018)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Website: <a href="https://visual-question-answering-challenge.github.io/" class="">https://visual-question-answering-challenge.github.io/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Summary: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">This challenge focuses on the use of semantic representation methods to support Visual Question Answering: given a large image collection, find a set of images matching natural language queries. The
task will support advancing the state-of-the-art in Visual Question Answering by focusing on methods which explore the interplay between contemporary machine learning techniques, semantic representation and reasoning mechanisms. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Topics of interest for the challenge include (but are not restricted to):</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Visual Question Answering (QA)
architectures and techniques.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Representation learning / Semantic
representation models for Visual QA.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Machine learning methods for
Visual QA.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Zero and one-shot learning methods.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Use of Web Data and Knowledge
Graphs to support Visual QA.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Linguistic resources and datasets.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">-<span class="" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>New evaluation paradigms.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Timeline: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">* Publication of the training data: December 1<sup class="">st</sup> , 2017.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">* Challenge papers submission deadline: February 4<sup class="">th</sup>, 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">* Challenge papers acceptance notification: February 14<sup class="">th</sup>, 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">* Challenge test data published and submission of results: February 14<sup class="">th</sup>, 2018.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Paper Submission:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The Web Conference Challenges is an official track of the conference. We request from participants to provide, in addition to their participation to the challenge, a paper describing the proposed
solution and, when relevant, self-assessments related to the defined criteria for evaluation. These papers will be published in the official satellite proceedings of the conference.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Organizers:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Fabricio Faria, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Andre Freitas, University of Manchester</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Ricardo Usbeck, Paderborn University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Tingting Mu, University of Manchester</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Alessio Sarullo, University of Manchester</span></p>
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