<div dir="ltr">*** Apologies for multiple posting ***<b><div><b><br></b></div><span class="gmail-il">Information</span> <span class="gmail-il">Retrieval</span> from <span class="gmail-il">Microblogs</span> <span class="gmail-il">during</span> <span class="gmail-il">Disasters</span> (<span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span>)</b><br><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/irmidis-fire2022/irmidis" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">irmidis</span>-fire2022/<span class="gmail-il">irmidis</span></a><br><br><span class="gmail-il">Track</span> in conjunction with <span class="gmail-il">FIRE</span> 2022 (<a href="http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home" target="_blank">http://<span class="gmail-il">fire</span>.irsi.res.in/<span class="gmail-il">fire</span>/2022/home</a>), December 9-13, 2022, Kolkata (Hybrid Event)<br><br><br>The <span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span> <span class="gmail-il">track</span> aims to develop datasets and methods for solving various practical research problems associated with a disaster or pandemic situation. The <span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span> <span class="gmail-il">track</span> has been run successfully with <span class="gmail-il">FIRE</span> in the years 2017, 2018 and 2021.<br><br>This year <span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span> will consist of two important classification tasks over <span class="gmail-il">microblogs</span>/tweets associated with the COVID-19 pandemic:<br>(1) classifying tweets according to their vaccine-related sentiment (pro-vaccine, neutral, anti-vaccine)<br>(2) identifying tweets that mention someone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, which is useful for detecting upcoming surges in COVID cases<br><br>For both tasks, we will provide training data annotated by human workers, and test data for evaluating the submitted models. <br><br><b>All participating teams will get to publish a working notes paper in the <span class="gmail-il">FIRE</span> workshop proceedings. The two best-performing teams in each task will be awarded winner and runner-up certificates, and their names will be put up on the <span class="gmail-il">track</span> website.</b><br><br>Training data has already been released. Participating teams need to submit runs by August 1. More details on how to participate are on the <span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span> site: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/irmidis-fire2022/irmidis" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">irmidis</span>-fire2022/<span class="gmail-il">irmidis</span></a>.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Bangla456,sans-serif">Kind Regards,</span></span><br><div><p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Bangla456,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;color:black">Kripabandhu Ghosh</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",Bangla456,serif"> </span></p><p><font color="#000000">Co-organizer</font></p><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;font-family:monospace,Bangla110,sans-serif"><font style="font-family:arial,Bangla110,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-il">IRMiDis</span></font></pre></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>