Hi all,
We are now close to the early-bird deadline! Submission is open as long 
as it is December 16th anywhere on earth [1]. However, if you make a 
submission on time and it fails for some reason, we will give you a bit 
more time to fix the issue.
To participate in the early-bird submission (which is completely 
optional), you have to have at least one run submitted to the 
"arguments-test" dataset [2]. Both upload submissions and docker 
submissions are welcome (and we already received both kinds). If you 
made more than one submission to the test data, please send me a mail to 
tell me which one should count.
As some teams struggled to prepare a valid file for upload submission, 
we now created an online run file validator that you can use to quickly 
check your file before you submit [3]. Feedback on this is welcome.
Since we plan for some time to fix errors (see above), please expect to 
get your results on Monday.
If you have questions, please mail me, though note that it is soon 
midnight for me and I will take some sleep. But do not worry if you run 
into trouble. To encounter these troubles now instead of at the final 
deadline is exactly what this early-bird deadline is for. And as I said 
before: if you tried to submit but it failed, we will still try to fix 
and include the run.
On a separate note: Unfortunately, it takes us longer than expected to 
prepare the additional test dataset from religious texts. Since it is so 
different to what we have already, the crowdworkers really struggled and 
the quality of the annotations did not meet our standards. We are thus 
now re-annotating the data. Though we hoped we could made it in time for 
the early-bird deadline, it seems we will be missing it by a few days. 
However, the dataset will definitely be available for the final 
submission deadline as a completely optional second test dataset. We 
hope you are also excited to find out whether your approach also works 
on such arguments.
We hope you have a great time and have fingers crossed for all your 
submissions!
Johannes, Milad, Nailia, Maximilian, Henning, and Benno
[1] 
https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth
[2] Select here: 
https://www.tira.io/task/valueeval-at-semeval-2023-human-value-detection
[3] 
https://touche.webis.de/semeval23/touche23-web/run-validator.html