Connectionists: Third 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.



*Task Description*

Participants will develop NLP models for classifying hope-related
expressions through two main subtasks:

   1. *Binary Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 1 - separate for each
   language): Classifying texts as *Hope* or *Not Hope*.
   2. *Multiclass Hope Speech Detection* (Subtask 2 - separate for each
   language): Distinguishing between different types of hope expressions.



*Important Dates*

   - *Training data release:* February 20, 2025
   - *Evaluation 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



*Organizing Committee*

   - *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:* fbalouchzahi2021 at cic.ipn.mx
   - *Sabur Butt:* saburb at tec.mx
   - *Helena Gómez-Adorno:* helena.gomez at 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


*Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him)
Institute for the Future of Education (IFE)
*Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico*
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