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Dear Researchers,
We are excited to invite you to participate in the *PolyHope Shared Task at IberLEF 2025*, a unique challenge focused on analyzing the expression of hope in social media texts. Hope is a fundamental human emotion influencing decision-making, yet its nuanced nature—especially when masked by sarcasm—presents significant challenges for Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. This year, the task expands its scope to Spanish texts, emphasizing hope as an expectation alongside its existing English counterpart.
*Task Description*
The goal of PolyHope is to classify social media texts based on their expression of hope, with two subtasks available:
1. *Binary Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 1.a: English, Subtask 1.b: Spanish)* - *Hope:* Texts conveying hope, expectation, or desire. - *Not Hope:* Texts that do not express any hopeful sentiment. 2. *Multiclass Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 2.a: English, Subtask 2.b: Spanish)* - *Generalized Hope:* Broad optimism without specific targets. - *Realistic Hope:* Hope grounded in plausible outcomes. - *Unrealistic Hope:* Expressions of hope for unlikely outcomes. - *Not Hope:* Texts without hopeful sentiment. - *Sarcasm:* Texts that mimic hope but are sarcastic in nature.
This task aims to promote research in *inclusive language technologies*, enhance the *psychological and linguistic understanding* of hope, and develop *multilingual NLP models* capable of detecting nuanced sentiment and sarcasm.
*Important Dates*
- *Release of training data:* February 13, 2025 - *Release of test corpora & evaluation campaign start:* March 13, 2025 - *End of evaluation campaign (submission deadline):* March 28, 2025 - *Publication of official results:* March 30, 2025 - *Paper submission:* April 25, 2025 - *Review notification:* May 20, 2025 - *Camera-ready submission:* June 3, 2025 - *IberLEF Workshop:* September 2025 - *Publication of proceedings:* September 2025
*Organizing Committee*
- *Sabur Butt*, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi*, Independent Researcher, Mexico - *Maaz Amjad*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA - *Salud María Jiménez-Zafra*, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain - *Hector G Ceballos*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Grigori Sidorov*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
*Contact Information*
For inquiries, feel free to reach out to the organizing team:
- *General Inquiries:* polyhopeatiberlef@gmail.com - *Sabur Butt:* saburb@tec.mx - *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi:* fbalouchzahi2021@cic.ipn.mx - *Salud María Jiménez-Zafra:* sjzafra@ujaen.es
For more details and participation guidelines, visit:
PolyHope Competition Page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/ https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5509/
IberLEF Website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2025/home?authuser=0
We look forward to your participation in advancing research on hope speech detection!
Best regards,
Sabur Butt
*Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb - GitHub https://github.com/saburbutt - Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en - Website https://saburbutt.github.io/
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