* **April 15, 2019** - Entry deadline. You must accept the competition rules before this date in order to compete.

* **April 15, 2019** - Team Merger deadline. This is the last day participants may join or merge teams.

* **April 15, 2019** - Stage 1 Submission & Model upload deadline*

* **April 16, 2019** - Stage 2 begins. New test set uploaded.
 
* **April 22, 2019** - Stage 2 ends & Final submission deadline. Stage 2 final submissions selection must be completed by this date. 

* **May 3, 2019** - Description Paper Submission deadline.** Winners Obligations deadline.

* **May 24, 2019** - Description Paper Reviews and Acceptance announcements.

* **June 7, 2019** - Camera-ready Papers deadline.

* **August 2, 2019** - [ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) 2019 Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing][1].



* In order to be eligible for Stage 2, each team's Stage 1 submission must include the 2 selected models zipped & uploaded, via Team -> Your Model, per the [Competition Rules](https://www.kaggle.com/c/gendered-pronoun-resolution/rules). These 2 models should match that which was used to generate the 2 final submissions selected for scoring. Be aware that if you do not select final submission(s) (via 'My Submissions') in stage 2, the platform will auto-select your best-scoring model(s). The deadline for model upload is firmly the end of Stage 1. This requirement is in place to confirm the performance of the uploaded models matches the Stage 2 submission file. For more information on two-stage competitions, please review the [Two-Stage Competition FAQ][2]

** All entrants are welcome to submit a paper for the [Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing](https://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat/) as part of the ACL 2019 conference. However, Prize winners are required, as a condition of receipt of the Prize, to write a paper within the required deadlines and to the requirements specified by the Competition Sponsor. 

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary.


  [1]: https://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat/
  [2]: https://www.kaggle.com/two-stage-frequently-asked-questions