[Apologies for cross-posting]

We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy and Personality Detection in interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2024 at ACL 2024. This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, and Personality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a conversation.

Task Description

You can participate in five different tracks:

Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level

Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns (CONV-turn), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion polarity, and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation

Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level

Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability; OCEAN) of the essay writer, knowing all of their essays, dialogs, and the news article from which they reacted

Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks.

For participation, please check: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18810

Important Dates

April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and training/development data released

May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released

June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on Codalab

June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p)

June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance

July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due

Task Organizers

Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA

Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile

Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA

Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA

Contact

wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com

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