Dear All, we are happy to announce IMPOLS (IMplicit contents in POLitical Speech) shared task within EVALITA 2026 campaign.

IMPOLS website: https://liu-dilef.github.io/IMPOLS-task/ IMPOLS demo video: https://youtu.be/Tu7A1U759FI

EVALITA website: https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/

IMPOLS focuses on the automatic recognition of implicit content in political speech. Given an utterance in a context, we ask participants to develop a system capable of detecting and classifying the implicit contents that are non-bona fide true: these are implicit, questionable contents that are not conveyed in good faith but are still understood as true, albeit non-explicitly, within a given context. This kind of content is widely employed in political communication as a strategic tool to convey messages implicitly, thereby enabling the transmission of potentially manipulative content without overt expression.

There are three subtasks: 1. a binary detection task, in which the systems are asked to detect the presence of questionable implicit contents in speech excerpts; 2. a binary classification task, in which the systems are asked to discriminate between two types of implicit contents: implicatures and presuppositions; 3. a multiclass classification task, in which the systems have to identify if implicatures are particularized conversational, generalized conversational, or conventional.

IMPOLS is a monolingual (Italian) multimodal task: both the speech and the manually revised transcription are provided to the participants in the three subtasks.

We encourage participation of teams in one or more subtasks, exploiting textual or multimodal data.

Important Dates: -- NOW! Training data available to participants -- 1st December 2025 - 8th December 2025: IMPOLS evaluation window -- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants -- 9th January 2026: final reports due to task participants -- 16th January 2026: final reports due to task organizers -- 7th February 2026: review deadline -- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline -- 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy)

Organizers and Contacts: -- Lorenzo Gregori (University of Florence), lorenzo.gregori@unifi.it -- Walter Paci (University of Florence), walter.paci@unifi.it -- Valentina Saccone (University of Florence), valentina.saccone@unifi.it