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Call for Participation for MultiPRIDE task at EVALITA 2026 https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/
MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the LGBTQ+ Context - https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ https://multipride-evalita.github.io/
With this task, we invite researchers, practitioners and students to explore features and issues related to reclaimed language in the LGBTQ+ community.
In particular, we suggest participants to focus on both the textual content of the inputs (such as arguments, slurs, denigratory words, self-labeling, figures of speech), and the contextual information that can be inferred from the users’ profile (when available), such as their being part of the LGBTQ+ community. This is a binary classification task, in which systems must classify whether a term related to LGBTQ+ context in a sentence is used with a reclamatory intent or not.
We propose two different tasks that can be addressed according to a constrained or unconstrained approach: • Task A - Textual Content: participants are provided only with the textual content of the tweet. • Task B - Contextual Content: in addition to the textual content of the tweet, participants can use contextual information related to the author’s profile, such as their biography (when available).
MultiPRIDE is a multilingual task and involves one or more languages among Italian, Spanish and English data. Although not mandatory, participants are encouraged to foster cross-linguistic analysis.
Important Dates: • September 29, 2025: release of training data • November 21, 2025: Call for Interest deadline • November 27 – December 4, 2025: evaluation window • December 15, 2025: results to participants • January 9, 2026: submission of participants’ report • February 7, 2026: reviews to participants • February 16, 2026: camera ready • February 26 – 27, 2026: EVALITA workshop (Bari)
More details available on MultiPRIDE website https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ and on Evalita26 website https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/ https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/
If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to write to us at multipride-evalita@gmail.com mailto:multipride-evalita@gmail.com
The MultiPRIDE team