GermEval2024 Shared Task: GerMS-Detect -- Sexism Detection in German
Online News Fora

1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We are pleased to announce the GermEval Shared Task GerMS-Detect on
Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora collocated with Konvens 2024 <https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/>.

Competition Website <https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/>

Important Dates:

* Trial phase: April 20 - April 29, 2024
* Development phase: May 1 - June 5, 2024
* Competition phase: June 7 - June 25, 2024
* Paper submission due: July 1, 2024
* Camera ready due: July 20, 2024
* Shared Task @KONVENS: 10 September, 2024

Task description:

This shared task is about the detection of sexism/misogyny in comments
posted in (mostly) German language to the comment section of an Austrian
online newspaper. The data was originally collected for the development
of a classifier that supports human moderators in detecting potentially
sexist comments or identify comment fora with a high rate of sexist
comments. For details see the Competition Website <https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/>.

Organizers:

The task is organized by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) <https://www.ofai.at>.

Organizing team:

* Brigitte Krenn (brigitte.krenn (AT) ofai.at)
* Johann Petrak (johann.petrak (AT) ofai.at)
* Stephanie Gross (stephanie.gross (AT) ofai.at)

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Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Associate Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
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