Announcing the 2026 ALTA Shared Task
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Diego Molla
Aug 2, 2026, 12:19:32 AMAug 2
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2026
The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology.
This year's shared task is: classify the sentiment and the sarcasm of Australian and British English text.
The tentative key dates are:
Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data
22 Sep 2026 - Release of test data
28 Sep 2026 - Deadline of submission of runs
01 Oct 2026 - Notification of results
26 Oct 2025 - Deadline of submission of system description
30 Nov - 2 Dec 2026 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2026
Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2026)
Good luck!
Diego
http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2026
The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology.
This year's shared task is: classify the sentiment and the sarcasm of Australian and British English text.
The tentative key dates are:
Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data
22 Sep 2026 - Release of test data
28 Sep 2026 - Deadline of submission of runs
01 Oct 2026 - Notification of results
26 Oct 2025 - Deadline of submission of system description
30 Nov - 2 Dec 2026 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2026
Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2026)
Good luck!
Diego
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