CryptOQA
Understanding CryptoCurrency related Opinions and Questions from Social Media Posts
Understanding CryptoCurrency related Opinions and Questions from Social Media Posts
ABOUT THE TASK:
We are thrilled to announce the CryptoQA track, hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, at FIRE 2024 – the 16th annual meeting of the prestigious Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation.
The CryptoQA track aims to identify different categories of posts published on social media related to CryptoCurrencies. Further, it will try to find out the answers for CryptoCurrency related questions.In this task, participants will develop classification models to classify cryptocurrency related social media posts into eight classes (e.g., objective, positive, negative, etc.)
Given a set of questions the task is to identify corresponding answers from a given set of cryptocurrency related social media posts.
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS:
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology and research university, an autonomous institute established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance. In 2019 it was awarded the status of Institute of Eminence by the Government of India. IIT Kharagpur is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in India.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata) was established in 2006 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (now Ministry of Education), Government of India. IISER Kolkata is an autonomous institution awarding its own degrees. The central theme of the IISER Kolkata is to integrate education with research so that undergraduate teaching as well as doctoral and postdoctoral research work could be carried out in basic sciences. In 2022, it was ranked fourth among the academic institutions in India by the Nature Index in 2022.