Third call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2026: Early detection of mental risk

*Release of trial corpora and registration still open* *!!*
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MentalRiskES2026 announces the fourth edition of a novel and enhanced task
on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from
social media sources. Unlike previous editions (IberLEF 2023, 2024, and
2025), this edition introduces significant innovations: psychologists are
now actively involved in generating and validating the data, which ensures
a closer connection to real clinical settings. The task continues to be
solved as an online problem, requiring participants to detect potential
risks as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Consequently,
performance depends not only on the accuracy of the systems but also on the
speed of detection, reflecting these dynamics in both task design and
evaluation metrics.

For this fourth edition, we propose two entirely new tasks: the first
subtask focuses on the detection of symptoms, while the second subtask
addresses decision support for therapeutic interventions.

We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks:


*1. Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations2. Therapist
Response Selection*

Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026.
<https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2026>

MentalRiskES 2026 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in
conjunction with the SEPLN 2026 conference in León (Spain).

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Important Dates
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Feb 9th            Registration open
*Mar 27th          Release of trial corpora (trial server available)*
Apr 12th           Registration closed
Apr 13th           Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation
campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)
Apr 20th           End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of
runs)
Apr 27th           Publication of official results and release of test gold
labels
May 11th          Deadline for paper submission
June 1st           Acceptance notification
Jun 15th           Camera-ready submission deadline
Sep TBD          Publication of proceedings

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00

Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026.

The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee.









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