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Call for Participation for MultiPRIDE task at EVALITA 2026 
<https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/>

MultiPRIDE: Multilingual Automatic Detection of Reclamation of Slurs in the 
LGBTQ+ Context - https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ 
<https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> 

With this task, we invite researchers, practitioners and students to explore 
features and issues related to reclaimed language in the LGBTQ+ community.
 
In particular, we suggest participants to focus on both the textual content of 
the inputs (such as arguments, slurs, denigratory words, self-labeling, figures 
of speech), and the contextual information that can be inferred from the users’ 
profile (when available), such as their being part of the LGBTQ+ community.
This is a binary classification task, in which systems must classify whether a 
term related to LGBTQ+ context in a sentence is used with a reclamatory intent 
or not. 

We propose two different tasks that can be addressed according to a constrained 
or unconstrained approach:
• Task A  - Textual Content: participants are provided only with the textual 
content of the tweet.
• Task B  - Contextual Content: in addition to the textual content of the 
tweet, participants can use contextual information related to the author’s 
profile, such as their biography (when available).
 
MultiPRIDE is a multilingual task and involves one or more languages among 
Italian, Spanish and English data. Although not mandatory, participants are 
encouraged to foster cross-linguistic analysis.

Important Dates:
• September 29, 2025: release of training data
• November 21, 2025: Call for Interest deadline
• November 27 – December 4, 2025: evaluation window
• December 15, 2025: results to participants
• January 9, 2026: submission of participants’ report
• February 7, 2026: reviews to participants
• February 16, 2026: camera ready
• February 26 – 27, 2026: EVALITA workshop (Bari)

More details available on MultiPRIDE website 
https://multipride-evalita.github.io/ <https://multipride-evalita.github.io/> 
and on Evalita26 website https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/ 
<https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2026/tasks/> 

If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to write to us at 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

The MultiPRIDE team


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