Touché @ CLEF 2025: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems (Classification, Detection, Retrieval, Generation) Call for Participation

We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at Touché 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain.

We extended the submission deadline to May 23rd.

1. Retrieval-Augmented Debating. Sub-Task 1: Generate responses to argue against a simulated debate partner. Sub-Task 2: Evaluate systems of sub-task 1. https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/retrieval-augmented-debating.htm...

2. Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates. Sub-Task 1: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify the ideology of the speaker's party. Sub-Task 2: Given a parliamentary speech in one of several languages, identify whether the speaker's party is currently governing or in opposition. Sub-Task 3: Given a parliamentary speech, identify the position of the speaker's party in populist - pluralist scale. https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/ideology-and-power-identificatio...

3. Image Retrieval/Generation for Arguments. Given an argument, find (retrieve or generate) images that help to convey the argument's premise. https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/image-retrieval-for-arguments.ht...

4. Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Sub-Task 1: Create relevant responses for a given query, based on a set of document segments. Sub-Task 2: Given a query and a response, classify whether the response contains an advertisement or not. https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/advertisement-detection.html

Find out more at https://touche.webis.de/clef25/touche25-web/ and join our mailing list at https://groups.google.com/g/touche-lab for staying up to date.

Important Dates -------------------------- 2025-05-23: Approaches submission deadline 2025-05-30: Participant paper submission 2025-06-10: Peer review notification 2025-07-07: Camera-ready participant papers submission 2025-09 09-12: CLEF Conference in Madrid and Touché Workshop

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We are looking forward to your submission! The Touché team