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We are inviting researchers to participate in a shared task at FIRE 2020 on sentiment analysis for Dravidian languages in code-mixed text.

The goal of this task is to identify sentiment polarity of the code-mixed dataset of comments/posts in Dravidian Languages (Malayalam-English and Tamil-English) collected from social media. The comment/post may contain more than one sentence but the average sentence length of the corpora is 1. Each comment/post is annotated with sentiment polarity at the comment/post level. This dataset also has class imbalance problems depicting real-world scenarios. Our proposal aims to encourage research that will reveal how sentiment is expressed in code-mixed scenarios on social media.

The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset.

Key Dates:

Release of Trail data: 10 June
Release of Training data: 10 June
Release of Test data: 1 August
Run submission deadline: 20 August
Results declared: 31 August
Paper submission: 20 September
Revised paper: 30 October.
10th-13th December - FIRE 2020