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        Date: 2024-03-19 12:50:43+00:00
        From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiz@gmail.com>
        Subject: Call for Participation: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content

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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