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author Naseem, Usman
Geislinger, Robert
Ren, Juan
Kohail, Sarah
Veliz, Rudy Garrido
Sahil, P Sam
Zhang, Yiran
Stranisci, Marco Antonio
Abdulmumin, Idris
Alaçam, Özge
Acartürk, Cengiz
Jabr, Aisha
Anwar, Saba
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Tutubalina, Elena
Htet, Aung Kyaw
Wang, Xintong
Thapa, Surendrabikram
Chakraborty, Tanmoy
Kodati, Dheeraj
Moradizeyveh, Sahar
Alam, Firoj
Thu, Ye Kyaw
Parida, Shantipriya
Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
Wanzare, Lilian
Onyango, Nelson Odhiambo
Siro, Clemencia
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Ali, Adem Chanie
Semmann, Martin
Biemann, Chris
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Yimam, Seid Muhie
author_facet Naseem, Usman
Geislinger, Robert
Ren, Juan
Kohail, Sarah
Veliz, Rudy Garrido
Sahil, P Sam
Zhang, Yiran
Stranisci, Marco Antonio
Abdulmumin, Idris
Alaçam, Özge
Acartürk, Cengiz
Jabr, Aisha
Anwar, Saba
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Tutubalina, Elena
Htet, Aung Kyaw
Wang, Xintong
Thapa, Surendrabikram
Chakraborty, Tanmoy
Kodati, Dheeraj
Moradizeyveh, Sahar
Alam, Firoj
Thu, Ye Kyaw
Parida, Shantipriya
Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
Wanzare, Lilian
Onyango, Nelson Odhiambo
Siro, Clemencia
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Ali, Adem Chanie
Semmann, Martin
Biemann, Chris
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Yimam, Seid Muhie
contents We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labeled with the presence of polarization, polarization type, and polarization manifestation. Participants were asked to predict labels in three sub-tasks: (1) detecting the presence of polarization, (2) identifying the type of polarization, and (3) recognizing the polarization manifestation. The three tasks attracted over 1,000 participants worldwide and more than 10k submission on Codabench. We received final submissions from 67 teams and 73 system description papers. We report the baseline results and analyze the performance of the best-performing systems, highlighting the most common approaches and the most effective methods across different subtasks and languages. The dataset of this task is publicly available.
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spellingShingle SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Naseem, Usman
Geislinger, Robert
Ren, Juan
Kohail, Sarah
Veliz, Rudy Garrido
Sahil, P Sam
Zhang, Yiran
Stranisci, Marco Antonio
Abdulmumin, Idris
Alaçam, Özge
Acartürk, Cengiz
Jabr, Aisha
Anwar, Saba
Ayele, Abinew Ali
Tutubalina, Elena
Htet, Aung Kyaw
Wang, Xintong
Thapa, Surendrabikram
Chakraborty, Tanmoy
Kodati, Dheeraj
Moradizeyveh, Sahar
Alam, Firoj
Thu, Ye Kyaw
Parida, Shantipriya
Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub
Wanzare, Lilian
Onyango, Nelson Odhiambo
Siro, Clemencia
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
Ali, Adem Chanie
Semmann, Martin
Biemann, Chris
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan
Yimam, Seid Muhie
Computation and Language
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labeled with the presence of polarization, polarization type, and polarization manifestation. Participants were asked to predict labels in three sub-tasks: (1) detecting the presence of polarization, (2) identifying the type of polarization, and (3) recognizing the polarization manifestation. The three tasks attracted over 1,000 participants worldwide and more than 10k submission on Codabench. We received final submissions from 67 teams and 73 system description papers. We report the baseline results and analyze the performance of the best-performing systems, highlighting the most common approaches and the most effective methods across different subtasks and languages. The dataset of this task is publicly available.
title SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06817