HASOC (2020): Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages Hyderabad (virtual) India, December 16-20, 2020 |
Conference website | https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hasoc2020 |
Submission deadline | October 12, 2020 |
HASOC provides a forum and a data challenge for multilingual research on the identification of problematic content. This year, we offer again English, German and Hindi with 2 sub-tasks, altogether over 12.000 annotated tweets from Twitter. Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in one or two of the subtasks among three languages.
New in HASOC 2020:
- Multilingual track joining English, German and Hindi (promoting research on multilingual techniques)
- New sampling which worked independently of a seed word set (details will follow on the web site and in the overview paper)
- A sub-track is offered for Malayalam and Tamil.
Sub-task A: Identifying Hate, offensive and profane content
Sub-task A focus on Hate speech and Offensive language identification offered for English, German, Hindi. Sub-task A is coarse-grained binary classification in which participating system are required to classify tweets into two class, namely: Hate and Offensive (HOF) and Non- Hate and offensive (NOT).
- (NOT) Non Hate-Offensive - This post does not contain any Hate speech, profane, offensive content.
- (HOF) Hate and Offensive - This post contains Hate, offensive, and profane content.
Sub-task B :- Discrimination between Hate, profane and offensive postsThis sub-task is a fine-grained classification offered for English, German, Hindi.. Hate-speech and offensive posts from the sub-task A are further classified into three categories.
- (HATE) Hate speech :- Posts under this class contain Hate speech content.
- (OFFN) Offenive :- Posts under this class contain offensive content.
- (PRFN) Profane :- These posts contain profane words.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Papers describing your model for text classification.
Committees
Organizing committee
- Thomas Mandl:- University of Hildesheim, Germany
- Sandip Modha:- DA-IICT & LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India
- Gautam Kishore Shahi: - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Durgesh Nandini:- University of Bamberg, Germany
- Amit Kumar Jaiswal:- University of Bedfordshire, UK
- Prasenjit majumder:- DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India
- Daksh Patel:- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- Johannes Schäfer: - University of Hildesheim, Germany
- Chintak Mandlia:- infoAnalytica Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedebad, India
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to hasocfire@gmail.com