We invite researchers to participate in RANLP 2025 shared tasks.
RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of natural language processing and related communities are invited to participate. The following tasks have been accepted for RANLP 2025.
1. PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages
Organisers - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/
1. Multilingual Coreference Resolution
Organisers - Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/
1. Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT)
Organisers - Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/
1. Identification of the severity of the depression in forum post
Organisers - Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/
1. Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark
Organisers - Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi and Saad Ezzini Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/
For inquiries regarding the individual shared tasks, please contact the corresponding task organisers.
Shared Task Proceedings At least one member from each team needs to register and attend the RANLP 2025 shared task (which will take place on 11, 12 or 13 September 2025) and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. More information about the RANLP main conference and its co-located events are available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lancaster University