We are happy to announce this year's two shared tasks to be collocated with the NLP4IF workshop at NAACL 2021.
Task 1: Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic (in English, Arabic, and Bulgarian)
Predict several binary properties of a tweet about COVID-19: whether it is harmful, whether it contains a verifiable claim, whether it may be of interest to the general public, whether it appears to contain false information, etc.: https://gitlab.com/NLP4IF/nlp4if-2021
Task 2: Censorship Detection (in Chinese)
Predict which tweet is going to be censored using its text: https://gitlab.com/NLP4IF/nlp4-if-censorship-detection
Further details are available here: https://gitlab.com/NLP4IF
Important Dates:
February 24, 2021: Training data released
April 6, 2021: Test input released
April 8, 2021: Test submissions due
April 12, 2021: System descriptions due
April 19, 2021: System descriptions notification of acceptance
April 26, 2021: Camera-ready system descriptions due (hard deadline)