Call for Participation - GSI:detect at EVALITA 2026
Manuela Speranza
We are happy to announce that, in the context of EVALITA 2026 (the 9th evaluation campaign of NLP and Speech Tools for Italian), we are organizing GSI:detect, the first shared task on gender stereotypes detection in Italian.
Task Description:
The GSI:detect task aims at evaluating systems' ability to detect and classify gender stereotypes (GSs) in Italian short texts and is organized as follows:
- GS Detection (main task): given a text, assign is a numerical score, the GS value, that quantifies the degree to which the text contains or refers to a gender stereotype.
- GS Classification (subtask, optional but strongly encouraged): Assign each text to one of the following categories: Role, Personality, Competence, Physical, Sexual, and Relational.
Participation:
We invite participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. Please visit our website where more information is available.
To indicate your intention to participate, fill out the EVALITA form (open until November 21st 2025) selecting GSI:detect as a task of interest.
Data:
We just released the development data at the following link: download devset
Publication:
Participants will submit a report (that will undergo regular peer review) to be presented at the EVALITA 2026 final workshop, which will take place in Bari (Italy), 26-27 February 2026 (submission instructions will be available on the EVALITA website).
Important Dates (refer to the EVALITA website for updates):
- 1st December - 8thDecember 2025: GSI:detect evaluation window
- 15th December 2025: assessments returned to participants
- 9th January 2026: submission of participants’ reports
- 16th January 2026: submission of organizers’ reports
- 7th February 2026: review deadline
- 16th February 2026: camera-ready version deadline
- 26 - 27th February 2026: final workshop in Bari (Italy)
Task Organizers:
- Gloria Comandini - Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici
- Manuela Speranza - FBK
- Sofia Brenna - FBK ~ Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Davide Testa - FBK ~ Università di Roma La Sapienza
- Stefania Cavagnoli - Università di Roma Tor Vergata
- Bernardo Magnini - FBK
Contact: gsiev...@gmail.com
Website: https://gsi-d-evalita.fbk.eu/