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Thank you for participating in the 4th International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff. Please read this page completely: it contains very important information on result submission.

You should submit your results by email to me at this address:

bakeoff_4@126.com

The subject of the message should be

Bakeoff 2006 Result Submission

The message should be sent by the one who registered for participation. This is how I will match your submission to your registration information.

Please use the following conventions:

Submit a single archive file (.zip, .rar, .tar.gz, or .tar.bz2) containing your output file(s). Do this even if you are submitting a single result file.

The archive should be named with the username that are registed on the website. For example,the username "IAL" would submit "IAL.zip".

Each test file should be named X_result_[OC]_Y.Z where

X	is the name of the corpus: ckip, cityu, msra, ctb, sxu, ncc
[OC]	is whether the result is for the Open or Closed track
Y	is an optional identifier (a lower-case letter) for multiple runs of the system
Z	is whether the result is for Chinese Word Segmentation (seg) or Named Entity Recognition (ner) or Chinese POS tagging (tag)

For example, the results of running the cityu corpus in the closed track of the Word Segmentation task in a single run would be

cityu_test_result_C.seg

Running the Microsoft corpus in the open track for Named Entity Recognition with two alternate systems would be

msra_result_NER_O_a.ner msra_result_NER_O_b.ner

Note that 'a' and 'b' is used to distinguish two separate runs on this corpus.

The format for the file should be exactly consistent with the NON-XML format of the training data for that task.
ALL result should be in UTF-16(Little Endian) encoding form.
The deadline for which I will accept result submissions is 12:00 Beijing Time on 2007/09/28. Results received after this time will not be scored unless the team can provide me with a *very* good reason to allow the extension (e.g., the building burned down, the national computer network went down, etc.)