PolyHope 2025: Binary Hope Speech Detection from English and Spanish texts

The objective of this task is to classify social media texts according to whether they express hope or not. The goal is to identify both explicit and implicit expressions of desire, expectation, or optimism, even when they appear in complex linguistic structures. The texts are labeled as Hope or Not Hope.

Publication
Butt, S. et al. 2025. Overview of PolyHope at IberLEF 2025: Optimism, Expectation or Sarcasm? Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 75, pp. 461-474.

Task results

System MacroF1 Sort ascending Levenshtein distance
michaelibrahim 0.8720 93.38
rogeliorjr1 0.8710 97.24
nayeem01 0.8710 105.18
vandan1712 0.8680
vishesh2002 0.8680

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