SemEval-2022 Task 4: Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection
Carla Perez-Almendros, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Steven Schockaert
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of Task 4 at SemEval-2022, which was focused on detecting Patronizing and Condescending Language (PCL) towards vulnerable communities. Two sub-tasks were considered: a binary classification task, where participants needed to classify a given paragraph as containing PCL or not, and a multi-label classification task, where participants needed to identify which types of PCL are present (if any). The task attracted more than 300 participants, 77 teams and 229 valid submissions. We provide an overview of how the task was organized, discuss the techniques that were employed by the different participants, and summarize the main resulting insights about PCL detection and categorization.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.semeval-1.38
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Seattle, United States
- Editors:
- Guy Emerson, Natalie Schluter, Gabriel Stanovsky, Ritesh Kumar, Alexis Palmer, Nathan Schneider, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
- Venue:
- SemEval
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 298–307
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.semeval-1.38
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.38
- Cite (ACL):
- Carla Perez-Almendros, Luis Espinosa-Anke, and Steven Schockaert. 2022. SemEval-2022 Task 4: Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), pages 298–307, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- SemEval-2022 Task 4: Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection (Perez-Almendros et al., SemEval 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2022.semeval-1.38.pdf
- Data
- DPM