Second Call for Participation: PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025
Sabur B
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear Researchers,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the PolyHope-M Shared Task at RANLP 2025, an exciting challenge aimed at advancing the computational understanding of hope across multiple languages. Hope is a crucial human emotion that influences decision-making, resilience, and social interactions. This shared task focuses on detecting and categorizing hope-related expressions in English, German, Spanish, and Urdu social media texts.
Unlike traditional binary sentiment classification, PolyHope-M introduces a nuanced multiclass classification approach to distinguish between:
- Generalized Hope: A broad sense of optimism not tied to specific outcomes.
- Realistic Hope: Expectations grounded in achievable goals.
- Unrealistic Hope: Desires for outcomes that are unlikely or impossible.
- Not Hope: Texts that do not express hope.
Participants will develop NLP models for classifying hope-related expressions through two main subtasks:
- Binary Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 1 - separate for each language): Classifying texts as Hope or Not Hope.
- Multiclass Hope Speech Detection (Subtask 2 - separate for each language): Distinguishing between different types of hope expressions.
Training data release: February 20, 2025Evaluation data release & evaluation start: February 25, 2025- Evaluation end: March 25, 2025
- Publication of official results: March 26, 2025
- Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2025
- Author notifications: May 10, 2025
- Camera-ready submission: June 10, 2025
- Shared task presentation at RANLP 2025: September 11-12, 2025
- Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Independent Researcher, Mexico
- Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Maaz Amjad, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
- Luis Jose Gonzalez-Gomez, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
- Helena Gómez-Adorno, IIMAS, UNAM, Mexico
- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland
- Grigori Sidorov, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
- Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
- Hector G Ceballos, IFE, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Ruba Priyadharshini, Gandhigram Rural Institute, India
- Saranya Rajiakodi, Central University of Tamilnadu, India
Contact Information
For any inquiries, please contact the organizing team:
- Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi: fbalouch...@cic.ipn.mx
- Sabur Butt: sab...@tec.mx
- Helena Gómez-Adorno: helena...@iimas.unam.mx
For more details and participation guidelines, visit:
PolyHope-M Competition Page: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/5635/
RANLP Website: https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/
We look forward to your participation in PolyHope-M at RANLP 2025 and your contributions toward enhancing hope speech detection across multiple languages!
Best regards,
Sabur Butt
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