[agents] [CLEF 2023] Intra-Multilingual Stance Classification in Online Debates — Call for Participation (apologies for cross-posting)

[Brian Ravenet]

Dear AI enthusiasts, 

We invite you to participate in our multilingual stance classification
shared task, as part of the Touché Lab, which will be held in
conjunction with the CLEF'23 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece [1]. 

CONTEXT: 

Participatory Democracy at the scale of a continent like Europe brings
many difficulties due to the high diversity of languages and cultures.
At the same time, Machine Learning is an interesting tool for stance
recognition in a large-scale context, in terms of data size, but also
regarding the topics and themes addressed or the languages employed by
the participants. Public consultations of citizens using Online
Participatory Democracy platforms offer this kind of setting and are
good use cases for automatic stance recognition systems.
In the context of the TOUCHÉ LAB AT CLEF 2023 [2], we are proposing a
shared task on data coming from the platform used during the CONFERENCE
FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE [2] which was inaugurated in 2021, where users
can submit proposals and comment over them in any of the 24 official EU
languages. A particularity of this platform is the use of a Machine
Translation system in order to give the possibility to the users to
interact between each others in their native languages, leading to what
we call Intra-Multilingual data: pairs of proposal and comment in
different languages.  

[1] https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu/
[2] https://touche.webis.de/ [1]
[3] https://futureu.europa.eu/ [2]

TASKS: Given a proposal on a socially important issue, the task is to
classify whether a comment is in favor, against, or neutral towards the
proposal. 

 	* Subtask1: Cross-debate Stance Classification.
 	* Subtask2: All-data-available Classification 

Learn more about this and other argumentation- and causality-related
tasks at https://touche.webis.de/ [1]
Data available at
https://touche.webis.de/clef23/touche23-web/multilingual-stance-classification.html#data
[3]
Register via the CLEF website:
https://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ [4]

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Important Dates
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Now open: Registration
Jan. 15, 2023: Development data available
April 30, 2023: Test data available
May 2, 2023: Approaches submission on the test data
June 5, 2023: Participant paper submission
July 7, 2023: Camera-ready participant papers submission
Sep. 18-21, 2023: Conference
One of the conference days: Touché Workshop on Argument and Causal
Retrieval

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Touché Open Source Proceedings

Touché will host a collection of software developed by participants at
GitHub.
The Touché team invite you to publish your software too and invite
software submissions using TIRA [ https://www.tira.io/ ].

In case of questions / suggestions / etc., please reach us at
touche at webis.de.

Best regards,
CoFE Team @ Touché 

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