DA-VINCIS - Classification of aggressive and violent incidents from social media in Spanish

Multi-label multi-class classification task in which the category(ies) of a violent incident must be identified. The incidents are mentioned in tweets in Mexican Spanish. The main aim of this task is to promote the research on developing automatic solutions for detecting violent events in social networks. The time frame elapsed between the occurrence of the event and when posted on social media, in this case, a lapse of 24 hours was defined as the maximum time for considering a tweet as reporting this kind of events. The following categories of violent incidents are considered: accident, murder, robbery and other.