*EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu*

CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022*

Website: Link https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home

Registration is now open: Link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWSPSM5wlgkucnhq3lDEsnWdaitwfq2EFve6yp8Pzc1ck6Vw/viewform

The training set is now available. Participants are invited to publish Working Notes of FIRE 2022*

*Task Description*

With the growth of spread and importance of social media platforms, the effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular, numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger. The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide with vast representation on social networks and digital media.

We encourage participants to participate in *EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)*

*Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu *Link https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-a

Task A requires you to classify the tweet as one, or more of the six basic emotions (plus neutral) which is the best representation of the emotion of the person tweeting.

*Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu *Link https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-b

Task B focuses on detecting Threatening language using Twitter tweets in Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which participating systems are required to classify tweets into two classes, namely: Threatening and Non-Threatening.

*Note: Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in either one or both subtasks. Please visit the website for more information.*

*Important Dates*

30th June – Training data release

25th July – Codalab submission link release (Task A)

31st August - Test set release (Task B)

10th September – Run submission deadline

17th September – Results declared

12th October - Working Note submission

26th October - Review Notifications

2nd November – Camera Ready Due

9th - 13th December - FIRE 2022 (Online Event)

*Organizers*

Sabur Butt, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Noman Ashraf, Mayo Clinic Arizona, United States

Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia

Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

*Contact*

Email: emothreat2022@gmail.com

Google-group: Link https://groups.google.com/g/emothreat

*FIRE 2022: Link http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home

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Sabur Butt

*IPN - Computer Research Center*