🇪🇸 HISEMOTIONS 2026: Emotion Detection in Early Modern Spanish Texts
Location: Spain
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Participate in HISEMOTIONS 2026, an emotion detection task for Early Modern Spanish texts at IberLEF 2026, advancing NLP in historical domains.
The HISEMOTIONS 2026 evaluation campaign is now underway at IberLEF 2026, focusing on emotion detection in Early Modern Spanish epistolary texts from the 16th–17th centuries.
The task involves developing systems to automatically identify emotional content in historical Spanish letters, addressing challenges such as diachronic language variation and historical semantic shifting.
- Advance emotion detection in low-resource and historical domains.
- Explore the effects of semantic change on automatic classification.
- Benchmark systems on a novel historical dataset with expert human annotation.
Key dates include:
- Task announcement: February 9, 2026
- Test data release & evaluation start: March 26, 2026
- Deadline for system submissions: April 30, 2026
For more information and to participate, visit the task page on GitHub or Codabench.
Tags: Emotion Detection, Early Modern Spanish, NLP, Historical Texts, IberLEF 2026, HISEMOTIONS, Spain