*Apologies for cross-posting*

In 2024, WILDRE is hosting a *Shared Task on Code-mixed Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis for Indo-Aryan Languages.*

Code-mixing, the dynamic interplay of multiple languages within a single discourse, is a widespread linguistic phenomenon observed in multilingual societies. Code-mixing is particularly intriguing when observed in closely related languages.

We invite you to participate in our shared task at the WILDRE workshop, which is co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. This shared task addresses the complexities of code-mixed data from less-resourced similar languages for sentiment analysis. We will provide annotated data for the following code-mixed languages:

1. Magahi-Hindi-English 2. Bangla-English-Hindi 3. Hindi-English

The evaluation will be in two different Tracks:

*A. Track 1:* Given training and validation data to determine the comment's polarity (positive, negative, neutral or mixed) in the same code-mixed setting.

1. Hindi-English 2. Magahi-Hindi-English 3. Bangla-English 4. Combined all the language pairs (1+2+3)

*B. Track 2:* Given unlabelled test data for the code-mixed Maithili language (Maithi-Hindi-English), leverage any or all of the available training datasets in Track 1 to determine the sentiment of a comment in the target language.

Important Links:

- Registration Link https://forms.gle/HVRK1W1hHqBwtgpu6 - WILDRE Workshop Link http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre7/index.jsp - GitHub https://github.com/wildre-workshop/wildre-7_code-mixed-sentiment-analysis

Important Dates:

- Dec 22, 2023: Registration - Jan 10, 2024: Train and Validation Data set Release [to get the data, please register] - Feb 15, 2024: Test Set Release - Feb 23, 2024: System Submission Due - Feb 29, 2024: System Results - March 15, 2024: System Description Paper Due - March 28, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance