Call for Participation: SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection (32 Languages)
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in SemEval-2025 Task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. This shared task focuses on perceived emotions and aims to predict what emotion most people think a speaker may be feeling, based on a given sentence or short text snippet.
Overview
The task is divided into three tracks:
- Track A: Multi-label Emotion Detection
Predict the presence of multiple emotions (e.g., joy, sadness, fear) in a given text snippet. - Track B: Emotion Intensity
Determine the intensity of a specific emotion in a text snippet on an ordinal scale(0-3). - Track C: Cross-lingual Emotion Detection
Predict perceived emotions in a target language using training data from a different language.
Languages
We include a large number of languages with many predominantly spoken in regions characterised by a relatively limited availability of NLP resources (e.g., Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America):
Afrikaans (afr), Algerian Arabic (arq), Amharic (amh), Portuguese (Brazilian) (ptbr), Chinese (zho), Emakhuwa (vmw), English (eng), German (deu), Hausa (hau), Hindi (hin), Igbo (ibo), Indonesian (ind), isiXhosa (xho), isiZulu (zul), Javanese (jav), Kinyarwanda (kin), Spanish (Latin American) (esp), Marathi (mar), Moroccan Arabic (ary), Portuguese (Mozambican) (pt-MZ), Nigerian-Pidgin (pcm), Oromo (orm), Romanian (ron), Russian (rus), Somali (som), Sundanese (sun), Swahili (swa), Swedish (swe), Tatar (tat), Tigrinya (tir), Ukrainian (ukr), Yoruba (yor).
Important Dates
- 10 September 2024: Training data release
- 15 January 2025: Evaluation phase starts
- 28 January 2025: Evaluation phase ends
- 28 February 2025: System description papers due
- 31 March 2025: Notification of acceptance
- 9-12 September 2025: SemEval workshop at ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria
Important Links
- Task page: https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11
- Discord: Join our community for updates and discussions: https://discord.gg/g2xJtSbWhs
- Contact: For inquiries, reach out to the organizers at emotion-semeval...@googlegroups.com.
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
The SemEval-2025 Task 11 Organizers
Shamsuddeen Muhammad, PhD (he/him)
Advanced Research Fellow
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
South Kensington
Huxley Building, Room 452