1st Shared Task on Scene Segmentation in German Narratives We invite contributions to the 1st Shared Task on automatic Scene Segmentation (STSS) for German narrative texts. Scenes are time-, location- and plot-wise coherent units of a story, and can predominantly be found in narrative texts like novels or biographies. Scene segmentation is needed for a high-level content analysis of longer texts, but also for many subsequent tasks for NLP applied in longer narrative texts, since even modern methods struggle with processing text longer than a couple of sentences or paragraphs. All the details can be found here: http://go.uniwue.de/stss2021. The shared task is co-located with KONVENS 2021: https://konvens2021.phil.hhu.de ## Important Dates June 7, 2021: Registration Deadline June 30, 2021: Start of final evaluation July 7, 2021: End of final evaluation July 15, 2021: Paper submission due August 10, 2021: Camera ready due September 6-9, 2021: KONVENS conference ## Contact stss2021@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ## Organizers Albin Zehe, University of Würzburg Leonard Konle, University of Würzburg Lea Dümpelmann, University of Heidelberg Evelyn Gius, Technical University of Darmstadt Svenja Guhr, Technical University of Darmstadt Andreas Hotho, University of Würzburg Fotis Jannidis, University of Würzburg Lucas Kaufmann, University of Würzburg Markus Krug, University of Würzburg Frank Puppe, University of Würzburg Nils Reiter, University of Cologne Annekea Schreiber, TU Darmstadt