Shared Tasks
ALP 2027 hosts two international shared-task competitions:
EvaCun 2027
End-to-end OCR for cuneiform languages. Participants produce full digital transliteration from composite 2-D tablet imagery, focusing primarily on second-to-first-millennium-BCE Akkadian with optional extensions to Sumerian. Two tracks are offered: a VLM-only track and an open-architecture track. Evaluation metrics include CER, WER, exact-match and segmentation-quality scores, plus downstream MT-based secondary assessment.
EvaHan 2027
Ancient-Chinese text-difficulty grading, the first shared task for classifying classical-Chinese prose and poetry into difficulty levels. EvaHan is an established evaluation series for NLP tools for pre-modern Chinese.
Participation is open to unaffiliated teams. Shared-task datasets are released under open licences. Registration links, datasets and detailed participation instructions will be announced.
Important Dates (preliminary)
These are placeholder dates from the first-call draft. Final dates and exact days will be announced. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Anywhere-on-Earth (AoE, UTC−12:00).
| Event | Preliminary timing |
|---|---|
| Paper submission deadline | March 2027 — exact date TBA |
| Shared-task training-data release | January 2027 — exact date TBA |
| Shared-task test-data release | January 2027 — exact date TBA |
| Notification of paper acceptance | April 2027 — exact date TBA |
| Camera-ready submission | May 2027 — exact date TBA |
| ALP 2027 workshop day | August 2027, Kyoto, Japan — exact date TBA |
System-description papers follow the short-paper format requirements and double-blind review policy.
Contact
For inquiries, please contact the organizing committee at alp-workshop-organizers-2027@googlegroups.com.