MultiPRIDE: Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in EN, ES, IT in the LGBTQ+ Context

[Paolo Rosso .]

Call for Participation for MultiPRIDE task at EVALITA 2026.

MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the LGBTQ+ Context - https://multipride-evalita.github.io/

 

With this task, we invite researchers, practitioners and students to explore features and issues related to reclaimed language in the LGBTQ+ community.

 

In particular, we suggest participants to focus on both the textual content of the inputs (such as arguments, slurs, denigratory words, self-labeling, figures of speech), and the contextual information that can be inferred from the users’ profile (when available), such as their being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

This is a binary classification task, in which systems must classify whether a term related to LGBTQ+ context in a sentence is used with a reclamatory intent or not.

 

Can reclaimed slurs be correctly detected by LLMs? 

 

We propose two different tasks that can be addressed according to a constrained or unconstrained approach:

• Task A  - Textual Content: participants are provided only with the textual content of the tweet.

• Task B  - Contextual Content: in addition to the textual content of the tweet, participants can use contextual information related to the author’s profile, such as their biography (when available).

MultiPRIDE is a multilingual task and involves one or more languages among Italian, Spanish and English data. Although not mandatory, participants are encouraged to foster cross-linguistic analysis.

 

Important Dates:

• September 22, 2025: release of training data

• November 21, 2025: Call for Interest deadline

• November 27 – December 4, 2025: evaluation window

• December 15, 2025: results to participants

• January 9, 2026: submission of participants’ report

• February 7, 2026: reviews to participants

• February 16, 2026: camera ready

• February 26 – 27, 2026: EVALITA workshop (Bari)

 

More details available on MultiPRIDE website https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ and on Evalita26 website https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/

 

If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to write to us at multiprid...@gmail.com

 

The MultiPRIDE team

Lia Draetta, Chiara Ferrando, Marco Madeddu, Mae Sosto, Viviana Patti, Paolo Rosso, Cristina Bosco, Jacinto, Estrella Gualda