1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We are pleased to announce the GermEval Shared Task GerMS-Detect on Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora collocated with Konvens 2024.

Competition Website: https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/

Important Dates:

Trial phase: April 20 - April 29, 2024 Development phase: May 1 - June 5, 2024 Competition phase: June 7 - June 25, 2024 Paper submission due: July 1, 2024 Camera ready due: July 20, 2024 Shared Task @KONVENS: 10 September, 2024

Task description:

This shared task is about the detection of sexism/misogyny in comments posted in (mostly) German language to the comment section of an Austrian online newspaper. The data was originally collected for the development of a classifier that supports human moderators in detecting potentially sexist comments or identify comment fora with a high rate of sexist comments. For details see the Competition Website (https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/).

Organizers:

The task is organized by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) (www.ofai.at).

Organizing team:

Brigitte Krenn (brigitte.krenn (AT) ofai.at) Johann Petrak (johann.petrak (AT) ofai.at) Stephanie Gross (stephanie.gross (AT) ofai.at)