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Dear Researchers,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the *PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025*, an exciting challenge aimed at advancing the computational understanding of *hope* across multiple languages. Hope is a crucial human emotion that influences decision-making, resilience, and social interactions. This shared task focuses on detecting and categorizing hope-related expressions in *English, German, Spanish, and Urdu social media texts*.
Unlike traditional binary sentiment classification, *PolyHope-M* 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.
*Task Description*
Participants will develop NLP models for classifying hope-related expressions through two main subtasks:
1. *Binary Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 1 - separate for each language): Classifying texts as *Hope* or *Not Hope*. 2. *Multiclass Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 2 - separate for each language): Distinguishing between different types of hope expressions.
*Important Dates*
- *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
*Organizing Committee*
- *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi*, Independent Researcher, Mexico - *Sabur Butt*, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Maaz Amjad*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA - *Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - *Helena Gómez-Adorno*, IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico - *Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi*, University of Galway, Ireland - *Grigori Sidorov*, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - *Thomas Mandl*, University of Hildesheim, Germany - *Hector G Ceballos*, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico - *Ruba Priyadharshini*, Gandhigram Rural Institute, India - *Saranya Rajiakodi*, Central University of Tamilnadu, India
*Contact Information*
For any inquiries, please contact the organizing team:
- *Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi:* fbalouchzahi2021@cic.ipn.mx - *Sabur Butt:* saburb@tec.mx - *Helena Gómez-Adorno:* helena.gomez@iimas.unam.mx
For more details and participation guidelines, visit:
*PolyHope-M Competition Page*: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/
*RANLP Website*: https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
We look forward to your participation in *PolyHope-M at RANLP 2025* and your contributions toward enhancing hope speech detection across multiple languages!
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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