Overview of CCL25-Eval Task6: Chinese Essay Rhetoric Recognition Evaluation (CERRE)

Yujiang Lu, Nuowei Liu, Yupei Ren, Yicheng Zhu, Man Lan, Xiaopeng Bai, Mofan Xu, Qingyu Liao


Abstract
"Literary grace in Chinese composition writing is a hallmark of linguistic sophistication, often realized through various rhetorical devices. The automatic identification and analysis of rhetorical devices in essays play a crucial role in educational NLP applications, particularly for assessing writing proficiency and facilitating pedagogical interventions. Although prior research has predominantly focused on coarse-grained recognition of limited rhetorical devices at sentence level, these approaches prove inadequate for handling complex rhetorical structures and emerging educational demands. In this paper, we present the CCL25-Eval Task6: Chinese EssayRhetoric Recognition Evaluation (CERRE), a novel framework comprising three distinct evaluation tracks at the document level: (1) Fine-grained Form-level Categories Recognition, (2)Fine-grained Content-level Categories Recognition, and (3) Rhetorical Component Extraction.The evaluation has attracted 29 registered participating teams, with 8 teams submitting valid system outputs. In particular, two participating systems demonstrated superior performance by exceeding the baseline metrics in complete evaluation criteria."
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2025.ccl-2.30
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Proceedings of the 24th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2025)
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August
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2025
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Jinan, China
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Hongfei Lin, Bin Li, Hongye Tan
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CCL
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China
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Yujiang Lu, Nuowei Liu, Yupei Ren, Yicheng Zhu, Man Lan, Xiaopeng Bai, Mofan Xu, and Qingyu Liao. 2025. Overview of CCL25-Eval Task6: Chinese Essay Rhetoric Recognition Evaluation (CERRE). In Proceedings of the 24th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2025), pages 252–260, Jinan, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
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Overview of CCL25-Eval Task6: Chinese Essay Rhetoric Recognition Evaluation (CERRE) (Lu et al., CCL 2025)
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