Apologies for cross-posting Link:https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11077 Shared Task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments: at LT-EDI 2023- RANLP 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2023/home?authuser=0 *Languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*.

Participants will be provided with sentences in comment, extracted from social. Given a comments, a system must predict whether or not it contains any form of homophobia/transphobia. The seed data for this task is the Homophobia/Transphobia Detection dataset [1], a collection of comments from social media. The comments are manually annotated to show whether the text contains homophobia/transphobia.

The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset in *English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*. To download the data and participate, go to codalab and click “Participate" tab. As far as we know, this is the first shared task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection.

*Important Dates for shared task:*

Task announcement: Feb 20, 2023

Release of Training data: Feb 28, 2023

Release of Test data: May 10, 2023

Run submission deadline: June 1, 2023

Results declared: June 10, 2023

Paper submission:1 July 2023

Peer review notification: 5 August 2023

Camera-ready paper due: 20 August 2023

with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr@gmail.com , bharathi.raja@universityofgalway.ie bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi@universityofgalway.ie Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachakr...

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