Shared Task

Introduction

Social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, offer the option of reacting to posts with an Animated GIF. The enriched media and finer-grained expressiveness of GIFs, compared to other popular graphic-based media such emoticons and emojis, have made their usage extremely popular on social media and an important addition to online human communications.

Dataset

Our dataset is collected from Twitter, and includes 40K samples. We provide three files: training data, development data that can be used during practice, and evaluation data used for ranking the submissions.

More information about our dataset is available here.

Challenge

Given the labeled training data, you will need to recommend GIF categories for all the tweets in the unlabeled evaluation dataset.

For each tweet, you need to recommend exactly 6 categories.

Metric

The metric that will be used to evaluate entries is Mean Average Precision at k, with k=6 (MAP@6).

More information about the reported metrics.

The Twitter thread above shows an example tweet ("I Can't Take This") and a GIF response. Clicking on the GIF will play a short animation, showing a hug between the two animals, sending a message of empathy and care to the original poster.