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        Date: 2024-04-17 07:49:05+00:00
        From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz@gmail.com>
        Subject: Final Call: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection

Dear colleagues,


You are invited to participate in the ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP
2024:

 (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques
identification (unimodal) on Arabic news articles and tweets.

 (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes
(multimodal) in Arabic.

The shared task will be held alongside the Second Arabic Natural Language
Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024), co-located with the ACL2024
Conference in Bangkok, Thailand (11-16 Aug, 2024).


Tasks

Task 1: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection:

The task is to detect the propaganda techniques used in a text and identify
the exact span(s) in which each propaganda technique appears. You will be
given text snippets from news paragraphs or tweets (multigenre). This is a
sequence tagging task.

Task 2: Multimodal propagandistic memes classification:

 We offer the three subtasks as defined below:

   -   Subtask 2A: Given a text extracted from a meme, detect whether it is
   propagandistic or not.
   -   Subtask 2B: Given a meme (text overlayed image), the task is to detect
   whether the content is propagandistic.
   -   Subtask 2C: Given multimodal content (text extracted from meme and the
   meme itself) the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic.

Website for detailed information: https://araieval.gitlab.io/


Registration and submission:

Task 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18111
Task 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18099

Important Dates

   -   15 Mar 2024: Registration on CodaLab and the start of the development
   cycle (release of training and development datasets, along with submission
   for the development phase on CodaLab)
   -   27 April 2023 23:59 AOE: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets
   release)
   -   1 May 2024 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission)
   -   5 May 2024: Release leaderboard
   -   15 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of shared task papers
   -   17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared task papers
   -   1 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
   -   16 August 2023: ArabicNLP Conference (colocated with ACL-2024)

Organizers

   -   Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
   -   Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
   -   Reem Suwaileh, HBKU, Qatar
   -   Md. Arid Hasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada
   -   Fatema Ahmed, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
   -   Md. Rafiul Biswas, HBKU, Qatar
   -   Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar


Regards,

The ArAIEval Shared Task Organizers
----

Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D
Associate Professor in Digital Humanities*
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar
tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992
wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building


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