Task 1: Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hope is considered significant for the well-being, recuperation and restoration of human life by health professionals. Hope speech reflects the belief that one can discover pathways to one's desired objectives and become motivated to utilize those pathways[1-5]. Our work aims to change the prevalent way of thinking by moving away from a preoccupation with discrimination, loneliness or the worst things in life to building confidence, support and good qualities based on comments by individuals. The goal of this task is to identify whether a comment contains hope speech or not. The comment/post may contain more than one sentence but the average sentence length of the corpora is 1. Each comment/post is annotated at a comment/post level. This dataset also has class imbalance problems depicting real-world scenarios.
The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset in Bulgarian, English, Hindi, and Spanish. To download the data and participate, go to codalab and click “Participate tab”.
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first shared task on Hope Speech Detection.
Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11076
Organizers
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland
Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland
Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan, Department Of Computer Science & Engineering, SRM Institute Of Science And Technology, Tamil Nadu
Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
José Antonio García-Díaz, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Momchil Hardalov, Amazon, Barcelona, Spain
Ivan Koychev, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Masdar City, UAE
Student Volunteer:
Daniel García-Baena, Universidad de Jaén, Spain.
Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy, Guru Nanak College, Tamil Nadu, India
Task 2: Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments: Participants will be provided with sentences in comment, extracted from social. Given a comments, a system must predict whether or not it contains any form of homophobia/transphobia. The seed data for this task is the Homophobia/Transphobia Detection dataset [7], a collection of comments from social media. The comments are manually annotated to show whether the text contains homophobia/transphobia.
The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset in English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam. To download the data and participate, go to codalab and click “Participate tab”.
Codalab Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11077
Organizers:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland
Malliga Subramanian, Kongu Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India
Rahul Ponnusamy, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland
Paul Buitelaar, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland
Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
José Antonio García-Díaz, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Rafael Valencia-García, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Student Volunteer:
Nitesh Jindal, University of Galway, Ireland
Task 3: Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil:
This shared task addresses a challenging area in Automatic Speech Recognition: vulnerable old-aged and transgender people in Tamil. People in their old-age visit primary locations such as banks, hospitals and administrative offices to address their needs in their quotidian lives. Many aged people are unaware of using the equipment facilitated to aid people. Similarly, transgender people are deprived of primary education because of prejudice in society, so speech is the only medium that could assist them in satisfying their needs. The spontaneous speech data is gathered from old-aged and transgender people, who are bereft of using these facilities to their advantage. The speech corpus containing 5.5 hours of transcribed speech will be released for the training set, and 2 hours of speech data will be released for testing.
Codalab Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11094
Organizers:
Bharathi B, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering, Chennai.
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland
Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan, Department Of Computer Science & Engineering, SRM Institute Of Science And Technology, Tamil Nadu
Sripriya N, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering, Chennai.
Rajeswari Natarajan, SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India
Student Volunteer:
Suhasini S, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering, Chennai.
Swetha Valli, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India.
Task 4: Detecting Signs of Depression from Social Media Text:
Depression is a common mental illness that involves sadness and lack of interest in all day-to-day activities [8][9]. Detecting depression is important since it has to be observed and treated at an early stage to avoid severe consequences [10]. DepSign-LT-EDI@ACL-2022 aims to detect the signs of depression of a person from their social media postings wherein people share their feelings and emotions. Given social media postings in English, the system should classify the signs of depression into three labels namely “not depressed”, “moderately depressed”, and “severely depressed”.
Codalab Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11075
Organizers:
Kayalvizhi Sampath, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai.
Thenmozhi Durairaj, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College Of Engineering, Chennai.
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland
Jerin Mahibha C, Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai.
Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel, Kongu Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India
Student Volunteer
Pratik Anil Rahood, University of Galway, Ireland
Important Dates for shared tasks:
Task announcement: Feb 20, 2023
Release of Training data: Feb 28, 2023
Release of Test data: May 10, 2023
Run submission deadline: June 1, 2023
Results declared: June 10, 2023
Paper submission:1 July 2023
Peer review notification: 5 August 2023
Camera-ready paper due: 20 August 2023
Workshop Dates: 7-8 September 2023
Reference:
[1] Harvey Milk. 1997. The hope speech. We are everywhere: A historical source book of gay and lesbian politics,pages 51–53
[2] Edward C. Chang. 1998. Hope, problem-solving ability, and coping in a college student population: Some implications for theory and practice. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 54(7):953–962
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[4] Rob Cover. 2013. Queer youth resilience: Critiquing the discourse of hope and hopelessness in lgbt suicide representation.M/C Journal, 16(5).
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[6] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.peoples-1.5/
[7] Chakravarthi, B.R., Priyadharshini, R., Ponnusamy, R., Kumaresan, P.K., Sampath, K., Thenmozhi, D., Thangasamy, S., Nallathambi, R. and McCrae, J.P., 2021. Dataset for Identification of Homophobia and Transophobia in Multilingual YouTube Comments. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00227.
[8] Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation. Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx). http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool?params=gbd-api-2019-permalink/d780dffbe8a381b25e1416884959e88b
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