30.2520, Confs: English; German; Hindi; Computational Linguistics/India

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Subject: 30.2520, Confs: English; German; Hindi; Computational Linguistics/India

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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:52:12
From: Thomas Mandl [mandl_lists at gmx.de]
Subject: Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages

 
Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages 
Short Title: HASOC 

Date: 12-Dec-2019 - 15-Dec-2019 
Location: Kolkota, West Bengal, India 
Contact: Thomas Mandl 
Contact Email: mandl at uni-hildesheim.de 
Meeting URL: https://hasoc2019.github.io/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)
                     Hindi (hin)

Meeting Description: 

To be organized at FIRE 2019 (http://fire.irsi.res.in)
12 - 15 December, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Task Description:

HASOC is inspired from two evaluation forums, OffensEval and GermanEval 2018.
Our objective behind the HASOC shared task is to leverage the synergies of
both forums. HASOC shared task is offered in 3 sub-tasks. Participants in this
year’s shared task can choose to participate in one, two or all of the
subtasks.

Sub-task A: Identifying Hate, offensive and profane content

Sub-task A focus on Hate speech and Offensive language identification offered
for English, German, Hindi. Sub-task A is coarse-grained binary classification
in which participating system are required to classify tweets into two class,
namely: Hate and Offensive (HOF) and Non- Hate and offensive (NOT).

(NOT) Non Hate-Offensive - This post does not contain any Hate speech,
profane, offensive content.
(HOF) Hate and Offensive - This post contains Hate, offensive, and profane
content.

Sub-task B :- Discrimination between Hate profane and Offensive posts
This sub-task  is a fine-grained classification offered for English, German,
Hindi.. Hate-speech and offensive posts from the sub-task A are further
classified into three categories.

(HATE) Hate speech :- Posts under this class contain Hate speech content.
(OFFN) Offenive :- Posts under this class contain offensive content.
(PRFN) Profane :- These posts contain profane words.

Sub-task C :- categorization of offense types
This sub-task will check the type of offense offered for English,  Hindi. Only
posts labeled as HOF in sub-task A are included in sub-task C. The two
categories in sub-task C are the following: 

Targeted Insult (TIN): Posts containing an insult/threat to an individual,
group, or others.
Untargeted (UNT): Posts containing non-targeted profanity and swearing. Posts
with general profanity are not targeted, but they contain non-acceptable
language.

Further details are available on the website: https://hasoc2019.github.io/
Please register by email

Timeline:
  
12th June: Task announcement (with trial data)
28th June: Training data release
1st August: Test data release
8th August: Run submission deadline
12th August: Results declared
28th August: System description paper submission
20th September: System description paper review due
27th September: Revised system description paper submission
12-15 December: FIRE takes place in Kolkata, India.

Organisers:

Thomas Mandl :- University of Hildesheim, Germany
Sandip Modha :- DA-IICT & LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India
Daksh Patel :- LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India
Chintak Mandlia :- infoAnalytica Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
 






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