31.403, Calls: English; Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis/Spain

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:45:21
From: Alberto Barrón-Cedeño [a.barron at unibo.it]
Subject: SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection

 
Full Title: SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection 

Date: 13-Sep-2020 - 14-Sep-2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
Meeting Email: a.barron at unibo.it
Web Site: https://propaganda.qcri.org/semeval2020-task11 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 17-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

We present the SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection. The
overall goal of the shared task is to produce models capable of spotting text
fragments in which propaganda techniques are used in a news article.


Second Call for Papers: 
 
The spread of propagandistic messages relies on the use of psychological and
rhetorical techniques. We have annotated a corpus of news articles with 18
techniques. This shared task aims at developing automatic models for the
identification of such techniques in texts. Two subtasks are offered:

Subtask 1 (SI). Propaganda Identification.
Given a plain-text document, identify those specific fragments that contain a
propaganda technique. This is a binary sequence tagging task.

Subtask 2 (TC). Propaganda Technique Labeling.
Given a text fragment identified as propaganda and its document context,
identify the applied propaganda technique at hand. This is a 14-way
multi-class classification problem.

The following propaganda techniques are considered:
* Loaded Language
* Name Calling, Labeling
* Repetition
* Exaggeration, Minimization
* Doubt
* Appeal to fear/prejudice
* Flag-Waving
* Causal Oversimplification
* Slogans
* Appeal to Authority
* Black-and-White Fallacy
* Thought-terminating Cliches
* Bandwagon, Reductio ad Hitlerum
* Straw Men, Whataboutism, Red Herring

We believe the tasks would be appealing to various NLP communities, including
researchers working on sentiment analysis, fact-checking, argumentation
mining, tagging, and sequence models.

A live leaderboard is active and allows participants to track their progress
on both tasks. All participants will be invited to submit a paper to the
SemEval-2020 workshop, co-located with COLING 2020, Barcelona. 

Shared task website: https://propaganda.qcri.org/semeval2020-task11

Schedule: 
September 5 2019    Registration opened
September 5 2019     Release of the training and development sets.
February 18 2020    Registration closes
February 19 2020     Release of the test set for task SI
March 2  2020    Task SI test submissions site closes
March 3  2020    Release of the test set for task TC
March 11  2020    Task TC test submissions site closes
April 17  2020    Paper Submission deadline
June 10  2020    Notification to authors
July 1 2020    Camera ready papers due
September 13-14  2020    SemEval 2020 workshop at COLING

Task Organisers: 
Giovanni Da San Martino, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Università di Bologna
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Henning Wachsmuth, Paderborn University
Rostislav Petrov, A Data Pro

Please note that the CFP deadline (17 April) is for the paper submission.
Participants can register until 18 April to get access to the training data.
The first deadline to submit predictions on the test data is 02 February.




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