PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025: Call for Participation
Participate in the PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025, focusing on detecting and categorizing hope-related expressions in multiple languages.
Researchers are invited to participate in the PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025, a challenge focused on advancing the computational understanding of hope across multiple languages. This task involves detecting and categorizing hope-related expressions in English, German, Spanish, and Urdu social media texts.
The task introduces a nuanced multiclass classification approach to distinguish between:
- Generalized Hope: A broad sense of optimism not tied to specific outcomes.
- Realistic Hope: Expectations grounded in achievable goals.
- Unrealistic Hope: Desires for outcomes that are unlikely or impossible.
- Not Hope: Texts that do not express hope.
Participants will develop NLP models for two main subtasks:
- Binary Hope Speech Detection: Classifying texts as Hope or Not Hope.
- Multiclass Hope Speech Detection: Distinguishing between different types of hope expressions.
Important dates include:
- Training data release: February 20, 2025
- Evaluation data release & evaluation start: February 25, 2025
- Evaluation end: March 25, 2025
- Publication of official results: March 26, 2025
- Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2025
- Author notifications: May 10, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: June 10, 2025
- Shared task presentation at RANLP 2025: September 11-12, 2025
For more details and participation guidelines, visit the PolyHope-M Competition Page and the RANLP Website.
Tags: PolyHope-M, RANLP 2025, NLP, Hope Speech Detection, Multiclass Classification, Social Media Texts, Natural Language Processing