Paper Submission + Team Name Change
Santiago Castro
Task participants, please remember you have the opportunity to submit a paper (a scientific publication) describing the system you built for this task. Any team that appears in the final table of results can do so. Submitting a paper is optional, but strongly encouraged. Provided the paper is accepted, it will appear in the SemEval proceedings in the ACL Anthology. You will have the opportunity to present your work at SemEval's 2026 workshop (orally and/or via a poster; TBD), colocated with ACL 2026 (the most important scientific venue for Natural Language Processing (NLP), according to Google Scholar), in San Diego, California, USA, in mid-July. These are renowned venues you may want to participate in, and by doing so, you are developing your academic career as well as influencing fellow researchers (who will consider your work in the future when building theirs). The paper submission deadline is March 2nd (it was pushed back 2 days). See more details at the SemEval 2026 website (including the sections: Important dates for task participants, FAQ, Paper Submission Requirements, and Guidelines for Writing Papers). The web page to submit a system paper for our task is: https://softconf.com/acl2026/semeval2026/. Remember to cite the overview paper for this task (which we're currently writing). This is its BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{semeval2026mwahaha,
title={{SemEval-2026 Task 1: MWAHAHA, Models Write Automatic Humor And Humans Annotate}},
author={Castro, Santiago and Chiruzzo, Luis and G{\'o}ngora, Santiago and Rahili, Salar and Deng, Naihao and Sastre, Ignacio and Amoroso, Victoria and Rey, Guillermo and Ros{\'a}, Aiala and Moncecchi, Guillermo and Meaney, J. A. and Prada, Juan Jos{\'e} and Mihalcea, Rada},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2026)},
year={2026}
}
Writing and submitting a system paper shouldn’t take long. It could be done in a matter of a few hours. However, note that SemEval has requirements that must be followed.
If you decide not to submit a paper, please send us a short text describing your system to semeval-2026-task-1-...@googlegroups.com. We want to describe the approaches used by the task's participants in general, and we would like to consider yours as well.
If you want your team name to differ from the one currently shown in the published results, please send a message in this Google Group stating the old and new names. The new name will be used in future tables where we share the results (and in our paper).
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