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 ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Santiago Castro, Ignacio Sastre, J. A. Meaney, Luis Chiruzzo, Naihao Deng, Rada Mihalcea, Salar Rahili, Santiago Góngora, Aiala Rosá, Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan José Prada

• Task 2: Predicting Variation in Emotional Valence and Arousal over Time from Ecological Essays ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Nikita Soni, H. Andrew Schwartz, Ryan L. Boyd, Tony Bui, Syeda Mahwish, August Håkan Nilsson, Adithya V Ganesan, Lyle Ungar, Niranjan Balasubramanian and Saif M. Mohammad

• Task 3: SemEval-2026 Task Proposal: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA) ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Liang-Chih Yu, Lung-Hao Lee, Jin Wang, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Kai-Wei Chang, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Saif M. Mohammad

Narrative

• Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Hans Ole Hatzel, Ekaterina Artemova, Haimo Stiemer, Natalia Fedorova, Evelyn Gius and Chris Biemann

• Task 5: Rating Plausibility of Word Senses in Ambiguous Sentences through Narrative Understanding ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Janosch Gehring and Michael Roth

QA and Conversations

• Task 6: CLARITY - Unmasking Political Question Evasions ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Konstantinos Thomas, George Filandrianos, Maria Lymperaiou, Chrysoula Zerva and Giorgos Stamou

• Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Nedjma Ousidhoum, Junho Myung, Jiho Jin, Yi Zhou, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alice Oh, Vladimir Araujo, Chenyang Lyu, Joanne Boisson, Aleksandra Edwards, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Amr Keleg, Huda Hakami, Asahi Ushio, Shu-Kai HSIEH, Younes Samih, Pintu Lohar, Mohamed Fazli Mohamed Imam, Nureman Sateemae, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Weihua Zheng and James Barry

• Task 8: MTRAGEval: Evaluating Multi-Turn RAG Conversations ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Sara Rosenthal, Yannis Katsis, Vraj Shah and Marina Danilevsky

Discourse and Argumentation

• Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Usman Naseem, Seid Muhie Yimam, Robert Geislinger, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Sarah Kohail, Juan Ren, Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, Saba Anwar, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Adem Chanie Ali, Martin Semmann and Chris Biemann

• Task 10: PsyCoMark -- Psycholinguistic Conspiracy Marker Extraction and Detection ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Mattia Samory, Felix Soldner and Veronika Batzdorfer

Emerging LLMs

• Task 11: Disentangling Content and Formal Reasoning in Large Language Models ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Marco Valentino, Leonardo Ranaldi, Giulia Pucci, Federico Ranaldi and André Freitas

• Task 12: Abductive Event Reasoning: Towards Real-World Event Causal Inference for Large Language Models ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen, Mingxuan Yang, Chenlong Zhang, Mingxuan Liu, Kang Liu and Jun Zhao

• Task 13: Detecting Machine-Generated Code with Multiple Programming Languages, Generators, and Application Scenarios ([contact organizers], [join task mailing list])
  Daniil Orel, Dilshod Azizov, Indraneil Paul, Yuxia Wang, Iryna Gurevych and Preslav Nakov

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.

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