Rudy Garrido Veliz
2026
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem | Robert Geislinger | Ada Ren | Sarah Kohail | Rudy Garrido Veliz | P Sam Sahil | Yiran Zhang | Marco Antonio Stranisci | Idris Abdulmumin | Özge Alacam | Cengiz Acarturk | Aisha Jabr | Saba Anwar | Abinew Ali Ayele | Elena Tutubalina | Aung Kyaw Htet | Xintong Wang | Surendrabikram Thapa | Tanmoy Chakraborty | Dheeraj Kodati | Sahar Moradizeyveh | Firoj Alam | Ye Kyaw Thu | Shantipriya Parida | Ihsan Ayyub Qazi | Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare | Nelson Odhiambo | Clemencia Siro | Ibrahim Said Ahmad | Adem Chanie Ali | Martin Semmann | Chris Biemann | Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad | Seid Muhie Yimam
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
Usman Naseem | Robert Geislinger | Ada Ren | Sarah Kohail | Rudy Garrido Veliz | P Sam Sahil | Yiran Zhang | Marco Antonio Stranisci | Idris Abdulmumin | Özge Alacam | Cengiz Acarturk | Aisha Jabr | Saba Anwar | Abinew Ali Ayele | Elena Tutubalina | Aung Kyaw Htet | Xintong Wang | Surendrabikram Thapa | Tanmoy Chakraborty | Dheeraj Kodati | Sahar Moradizeyveh | Firoj Alam | Ye Kyaw Thu | Shantipriya Parida | Ihsan Ayyub Qazi | Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare | Nelson Odhiambo | Clemencia Siro | Ibrahim Said Ahmad | Adem Chanie Ali | Martin Semmann | Chris Biemann | Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad | Seid Muhie Yimam
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labeled with the presence of polarization, polarization type, and polarization manifestation. Participants were asked to predict labels in three subtasks: (1) detecting the presence of polarization, (2) identifying the type of polarization, and (3) recognizing the polarization manifestation. The three tasks attracted over 1,000 participants worldwide and more than 10k submissions on Codabench. We received final submissions from 67 teams and 69 system description papers. We report the baseline results and analyze the performance of the best-performing systems, highlighting the most common approaches and the most effective methods across different subtasks and languages. The dataset and other resources for this task are publicly available.
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- Idris Abdulmumin 1
- Cengiz Acarturk 1
- Ibrahim Said Ahmad 1
- Özge Alacam 1
- Firoj Alam 1
- Adem Chanie Ali 1
- Saba Anwar 1
- Abinew Ali Ayele 1
- Chris Biemann 1
- Tanmoy Chakraborty 1
- Robert Geislinger 1
- Aung Kyaw Htet 1
- Aisha Jabr 1
- Dheeraj Kodati 1
- Sarah Kohail 1
- Sahar Moradizeyveh 1
- Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad 1
- Usman Naseem 1
- Nelson Odhiambo 1
- Shantipriya Parida 1
- Ihsan Ayyub Qazi 1
- Ada Ren 1
- P Sam Sahil 1
- Martin Semmann 1
- Clemencia Siro 1
- Marco Antonio Stranisci 1
- Surendrabikram Thapa 1
- Ye Kyaw Thu 1
- Elena Tutubalina 1
- Xintong Wang 1
- Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare 1
- Seid Muhie Yimam 1
- Yiran Zhang 1