We are pleased to announce the following tasks for SemEval-2026!

TASKS

Websites and contact information for individual tasks will be given below soon.

Sentiment and Emotion

• [Task 1: Humor Generation]

• [Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays]

• [Task 3: SemEval-2026 Task Proposal: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (dimABSA)]

Narrative

• [Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning]

• [Task 5: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding]

QA and Conversations

• [Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions]

• [Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures]

• [Task 8: Evaluating Multi-Turn RAG Conversations]

Discourse and Argumentation

• [Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization]

• [Task 10: PsyCoMark -- Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection]

Emerging LLMs

• [Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models]

• [Task 12: Abductive Event Reasoning: Towards Real-World Event Causal Inference for Large Language Models]

• [Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code with Multiple Programming Languages, Generators, and Application Scenarios]

CONTACT

For questions about particular tasks, email the task organizers at the addresses linked above. General questions about SemEval organization should be directed to semevalorganizers@gmail.com.

For general information about participating in SemEval and submitting papers, see Resources.

Link to CodaLab instructions, for both organizers and participants.