Framing the Israel War on Gaza: A Shared Task on News Media Narratives (FIGNEWS 2024)

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
Shared Task on News Media Narratives (FIGNEWS 2024)
Location: 
Thailand
Friday, 16 August 2024
State: 
Country: 
Thailand
Contact Email: 
City: 
Bangkok
Contact: 
Wajdi Zaghouani
Submission Deadline: 
Friday, 10 May 2024

Calling all NLP, Digital Humanities and media analysis enthusiasts! Participate in the "Framing the Israel War on Gaza" (FIGNEWS) shared task and play a pivotal role in shaping media narrative research. Engage in creating guidelines, annotating a diverse multilingual corpus, and pushing the boundaries of NLP!

Task Highlights:

1. Guidelines Creation: Craft comprehensive annotation guidelines and set a benchmark in NLP research.

2. Annotation: Dive into annotating news articles in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, French, and English, uncovering biases and enhancing our understanding of media narratives. The teams will be asked to annotate a minimum of 2,000 posts. Teams will ideally have 4 members with a minimum of 2 members to participate.

3. Two Sub-Tasks: The shared task aims to serve as a collaborative platform where participants propose guidelines and diverse methods for annotating and analyzing the dataset. There will be two subtasks of focus:

Sub-Task 1: Bias Annotation
Sub-Task 2 : Propaganda Annotation

4. Tracks & Awards:

Quantity Track: Be the team with the most annotated data batches and win the quantity track award.
Quality Track: Excel in the accuracy and consistency of your annotations to dominate the quality track.
Guidelines Track: Develop innovative and effective guidelines to be recognized in the guidelines track.

Be part of this significant event, co-located with the ArabicNLP 2024 conference with ACL 2024 in Thailand. Enhance your skills, contribute to vital research, and network with global experts in NLP and media studies.