We invite researchers to participate in RANLP 2025 shared tasks.
 
RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of natural language processing and related communities are invited to participate. The following tasks have been accepted for RANLP 2025.
 
  1. PolyHope-M: Bridging Hope Speech Detection Across Multiple Languages
      Organisers - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Maaz Amjad, Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Helena Gomez-Adorno, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Grigori Sidorov, Thomas Mandl, Ruba Priyadharshini and Saranya Rajiakodi
      Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/ 

  1. Multilingual Coreference Resolution
      Organisers - Vijay Sundar Ram, Pattabhi RK Rao and Sobha Lalitha Devi
      Task website - https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5759/ 

  1. Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text (M-DAIGT)
      Organisers  - Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Abdessamad Benlahbib, Samir El amrany, Salmane Chafik and Hicham Hammouchi
      Task website - https://ezzini.github.io/M-DAIGT/ 

  1. Identification of the severity of the depression in forum post
      Organisers - Isuri Anuradha, Hasintha Hewawasam, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson and Saad Ezzini
      Task website -  https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5894/
 
  1. Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain: A Multi-Dialect Benchmark
      Organisers - Maram I. Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Ruslan Mitkov, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi and Saad Ezzini
      Task website - https://ahasis-42267.web.app/
 
For inquiries regarding the individual shared tasks, please contact the corresponding task organisers.

Shared Task Proceedings
At least one member from each team needs to register and attend the RANLP 2025 shared task (which will take place on 11, 12 or 13 September 2025) and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings.
More information about the RANLP main conference and its co-located events are available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
Shared Task Chairs
Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK
Dr Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

RANLP 2024 Chairs
Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria


Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe 
Lancaster University