Participants who want to submit their systems need to follow the steps below:

1. Send an email to absapt@inf.ufpel.edu.br with the team info (email and affiliation of each team member)

2. Organizers will send you the training data by March 22th  April 15th. 

3. Organizers will send you the test data by email by April 22th April 15th.

4. Participants send their predictions by May 12th and an draft of your working notes (Submission form LINK).

5. Once the results are declared (May 12th), participants will be required to provide an abstract and a technical report including a brief description of their approach and experiments for the publication in the IberLEF Proceedings. 

All system description papers will be part of the official IberLEF Proceedings that will be published at CEUR-WS.org (http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). 

Instructions for authors: 

• System description papers should be formatted according to the 1-column CEURRAT style. Latex and Word templates can be found in: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PREPARE

• The minimum length of a regular paper should be 5 pages. There is no maximum page limit. 

• Papers must be written in English. 

• Each paper must include a copyright footnote on the first page of each paper: {\let\thefootnote\relax\footnotetext{Copyright \textcopyright\ 2024 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). IberLEF 2024, September 2024, Valladolid, Spain.}}  

• Eliminate the numbering in the pages of the paper, if there is one, and make sure that there are no headers or footnotes, except the mandatory copyright as a footnote on the first page. 

• Authors should be described with their name and their full affiliation (university and country). Names must be complete (no initials), e.g.  “Soto Pérez” instead of “S. Pérez”.  

• Titles of papers should be in emphatic capital English notation, i.e., "Filling an Author Agreement by Autocompletion" rather than "Filling an author agreement by autocompletion". 

• At least one author of each paper must sign the CEUR copyright agreement. Instructions and templates can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html. The signed form must be sent along with the paper to the task organizers. 

• All system description papers must cite the corresponding task overview. In addition, these articles and task overviews should cite the general IberLEF overview, whose reference is as follows:

• APA style

Chiruzzo, L., Jiménez-Zafra, S. M., Rangel, F. (2024). Overview of IberLEF 2024: Natural Language Processing Challenges for Spanish and other Iberian Languages, vol 73, septiembre 2024.

• Bibtex

@article{overviewABSAPT2024,

author = {Gabriel Almeida Gomes, Alexandre Thurow Bender, Emerson Philippe Lopes, Larissa Astrogildo de Freitas, Ulisses Brisolara Corrêa},

title = {ABSAPT 2024 at IberLEF: Overview of the Task on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Portuguese},

journal = {Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural},

volume = {73},

year = {2024},

issn = {1989-7553}

}

The results should be sent in the following format:

Task 1 - Aspect Term Extraction:

teamName_task1.csv

<input id number>; "[<list of aspects>]"

e.g. 1; "['hotel', 'cama']"

Task 2 - Aspect Sentiment Classification/Aspect Orientation Extraction:

teamName_task2.csv

<input id number>;  <polarity> 

e.g.: 1;  -1

Where polarities can be {-1, 0, 1}