Overview of RefutES at IberLEF 2024: Automatic Generation of Counter Speech in Spanish

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This paper presents an overview of RefutES 2024, organized at IberLEF 2024 and co-located with the 40th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024). The main purpose of RefutES is to promote research on the automatic generation of counter speech in Spanish. Counter speech generation is a new strategy developed to combat hate speech on social media that involves generating a response that negates the offensive message. In this shared task, participants must be able to generate a response to hate speech messages directed at various targets of offense in Spanish. The response should be reasoned, respectful, non-offensive, and contain specific and truthful information. Moreover, we asked participants to submit measurements of carbon emissions for their systems, emphasizing the need for sustainable NLP practices. In this first edition, a total of 6 teams signed up to participate in the task, 1 submitted official runs on the test data, and 1 submitted system description papers.