WASSA 2024 Shared Task on Empathy and Personality Detection

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Location: 
ACL 2024
Country: 
Thailand
City: 
Bangkok
Contact: 
Salvatore Giorgi
Valentin Barriere
Joao Sedoc
Shabnam Tafreshi
Submission Deadline: 
Saturday, 1 June 2024

We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy and Personality Detection in interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2024 at ACL 2024. This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, and Personality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a conversation.

Task Description

You can participate in five different tracks:

  • Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level
  • Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns (CONV-turn), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion polarity, and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation
  • Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level
  • Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability; OCEAN) of the essay writer, knowing all of their essays, dialogs, and the news article from which they reacted

Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks.

For participation, please check: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18810

Important Dates

  • April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and training/development data released
  • May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released
  • June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on Codalab
  • June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p)
  • June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance
  • July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due

Task Organizers

Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA
Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile
Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA
Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA

Contact
wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com

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