Shared Task on Automatic Detection of Borrowings

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
ADoBo 2025
Location: 
online
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
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Contact: 
Elena Álvarez Mellado
Constantine Lignos
Jordi Porta
Julio Gonzalo
Submission Deadline: 
Saturday, 31 May 2025

ADoBo shared task focuses on the identification of lexical borrowings (words from one language that are incorporated into another language). Participants of ADoBo are tasked with creating systems that can accurately detect lexical borrowings from text.

TASK
For ADoBo 2025 we propose a shared task on retrieving anglicisms from Spanish text, i.e. words borrowed specifically from English that have recently been imported into the Spanish language (words like "running", "smartwatch", "fake news" or "youtuber").

DATA
The test set will consist of a collection of sentences written in European Spanish from the journalistic domain. Participants will be required to run their systems on the given sentences and return the anglicism spans in the sentence.

DATES
ADoBo 2025 will run from April 2025 to June 2025 and will be held online. The results of ADoBo shared task will be presented at IberLEF 2025, which will take place in September 2025 in Zaragoza, Spain.

HOW TO JOIN THE COMPETITION
To get access to the data, make submissions and check the leaderboard please join the competition on Codabench
https://www.codabench.org/competitions/7284/

Updates on the shared task will be posted on ADoBo website as well as on ADoBo Google group:
https://adobo-task.github.io/
https://groups.google.com/g/adobo-task

TIMELINE
- April 21: Dev set released.
- May 6: Test set released.
- May 19: Systems output submissions.
- May 26: Results posted and Test set with GS annotations released.
- June 2: Working notes paper submission.
- June 16: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews).
- June 23: Camera ready paper submission.
- September 23: ADoBo results to be presented at IberLEF 2025.

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Elena Álvarez-Mellado, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University.
Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).