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Dear colleagues, you are invited to submit a system paper for the first Propaganda Detection in Arabic shared task held with the 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2022) co-located with the EMNLP2 022 Conference in Abu Dhabi (Dec 7, 2022). https://sites.google.com/view/propaganda-detection-in-arabic/

Tasks Subtask 1: Given only the “text” of a Tweet, identify which of the 20 techniques (https://propaganda.qcri.org/annotations/definitions.html) are used in it. This is a multilabel classification problem.

Subtask 2: Given only the “text” of a Tweet, identify which of the 20 techniques (https://propaganda.qcri.org/annotations/definitions.html) are used in it together with the span(s) of text covered by each technique. This is a sequence tagging task

Important Dates July 24, 2022: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts. September 10, 2022: Registration deadline. September 10, 2022: Release of test data (and final training and dev data). September 15, 2022: End of the evaluation cycle (test set submission closes) September 20, 2022: Results released October 5, 2022: System description paper submissions due. October 15, 2022: Notification of acceptance. October 31, 2022: Camera-ready versions due. December 7, 2022: WANLP 2022 workshop at EMNLP in Abu Dhabi

Lab Registration Please register here: https://shorturl.at/ftuz9

Datasets The Datasets are hosted on the Gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/arabic-nlp/propaganda-detection/

Organizers Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU Hamdy Mubarak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padova

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