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Calling all NLP, Digital Humanities and media analysis enthusiasts! Participate in the "Framing the Israel War on Gaza" (FIGNEWS) shared task and play a pivotal role in shaping media narrative research. [image: đ] Engage in creating guidelines, annotating a diverse multilingual corpus, and pushing the boundaries of NLP!
*Task Website and Registration :* https://sites.google.com/view/fignews
*đŻ Task Highlights:*
*Guidelines Creation*: Craft comprehensive annotation guidelines and set a benchmark in NLP research. *Annotation*: Dive into annotating news articles in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, French, and English, uncovering biases and enhancing our understanding of media narratives. The teams will be asked to annotate a minimum of 2,000 posts. Teams will ideally have 4 members with a minimum of 2 members to participate. *Two Sub-Tasks*: The shared task aims to serve as a collaborative platform where participants propose guidelines and diverse methods for annotating and analyzing the dataset.
There will be two subtasks of focus:
*Sub-Task 1: Bias Annotation * *Sub-Task 2 : Propaganda Annotation*
*đ Tracks & Awards:*
*Quantity Track:* Be the team with the most annotated data batches and win the quantity track award. *Quality Track*: Excel in the accuracy and consistency of your annotations to dominate the quality track. *Guidelines Track*: Develop innovative and effective guidelines to be recognized in the guidelines track.
*đ Deadlines:*
*Registration closes: March 31, 2024Submission deadline (Annotation and Guidelines): April 30, 2024Paper submissions: May 10, 2024*
đ Be part of this significant event, co-located with the prestigious ArabicNLP 2024 conference and ACL 2024 in Thailand. Enhance your skills, contribute to vital research, and network with global experts in NLP and media studies.
Join us to make an impact and advance the field of NLP! #NLP #MediaAnalysis #ArabicNLP2024