PARSEME 2.0 Multilingual Shared Task on Identification and Paraphrasing of Multiword Expressions

Event title: culminating workshop of the PARSEME 2.0 shared task

Proposal: submitted to SemEval 2026

Location: TBA

Dates: TBA

Data: to be provided by the ongoing PARSEME/UniDive annotation campaign on multiword expressions

Shared task organizers:

Manon Scholivet, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Takuya Nakamura, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Agata Savary, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Eric Bilinski, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille Université, France

Subtask 1: MWE identification

This subtask is an extension of PARSEME shared tasks on automatic identification of verbal MWEs.

Task: Given a raw text, automatically underline MWEs in it

Data: PARSEME 2.0 annotated corpora (not necessarily all the texts from release 1.3)

Language teams willing to participate with PARSEME data

Albanian

Egyptian (ca. 2700-2000 BC): MWEs from the UD-EUJA treebank.

Georgian

Greek (Modern)

Greek (Ancient)

Hebrew

Japanese

Lithuanian

Persian (Farsi)

Polish

Romanian

Serbian

Slovene

Swedish

Ukrainian

Minimum annotation effort: 2000 annotated MWEs

Subtask 2: MWE paraphrasing

Task: Given a sentence with a MWE, rephrase a sentence so that there is no MWEs but the meaning is the same

Examples:

She made up her mind to… ⇒ She finally decided to…

He kicked the bucket ==⇒ He died (But not He passed away)

Data:

Selected sentences form PARSEME annotated corpora

The same sentences manually paraphrased

One to several hundred examples per language

Language teams willing to participate

Albanian

French

Greek (Modern)

Japanese

Hebrew

Lithuanian

Persian (Farsi)

Polish

Brazilian Portuguese

Romanian

Serbian

Slovene

Swedish

Ukrainian