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.

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Important Dates
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Feb 9th           Registration open
Mar 27th          Release of trial corpora (trial server available)
Apr 6th             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

 

Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2026.
 
The MentalRiskES 2026 organizing committee.