About FinEval
Shared tasks are collaborative initiatives where researchers and practitioners work together to address a common challenge using shared datasets and evaluation metrics. FinEval — Financial Information Access and Evaluation — aims to foster competition while providing a community venue, with new editions called annually alongside the FinNLP workshop.
For 2026, the call for task proposals is now closed. The FinEval 2026 shared task is detailed below. Participants submit a system description paper (see the Call for Papers), published in the ACL Anthology and presented at the workshop. See also the official FinEval page.
Shared Task: Multilingual Financial Language Understanding
The FinEval 2026 shared task advances multilingual financial language understanding across three complementary phenomena: entity extraction in Greek, pragmatic intent recognition in Japanese, and cross-document multilingual financial question answering. Participants may take part in one, two, or all three subtasks.
Greek Financial NER
Numeric and textual named-entity recognition over company filings from Athens Stock Exchange firms.
Japanese Implicit Communication Recognition (JF-ICR)
Classify implicit intent — such as commitment, non-commitment, risk signaling, or refusal — in Japanese company Q&A.
Multilingual Financial Q&A
Cross-document multilingual financial QA combining SEC filing statements with news, based on MultiFinBen / PolyFiQA.
How to Participate
- Register your team via the registration form.
- Datasets, baselines, evaluation, and submission — full details are on the task page.
- Write a system paper using the ACL template, published in the ACL Anthology.
- Present in person at FinNLP @ EMNLP 2026 in Budapest.
Important Dates
| All public datasets release | July 28, 2026 |
| Test set release & test phase start | August 4, 2026 |
| Test phase end | August 20, 2026 |
| Leaderboard release | August 22, 2026 |
| System paper submission | August 25, 2026 (AoE) |
| Notification of acceptance | September 1, 2026 |
| Camera-ready deadline | September 10, 2026 (AoE) |
| Workshop & awards @ EMNLP | October 28, 2026 |
// All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC-12)
The shared task runs its own submission schedule so participants can complete the evaluation phase first. Camera-ready (September 10) aligns with the main workshop, and final proceedings are due to the EMNLP workshop chairs by September 25, 2026 (hard deadline).
Previous FinEval Tasks
- Earnings2InsightsEMNLP-2025
- FinEval-Pilot (5 tasks)COLING-2025
- Financial Challenges in Large Language ModelsIJCAI-2024
- Multiple Question Generation from Presentation TranscriptsIJCAI-2024
- ML-ESG-3LREC-COLING-2024
- ML-ESG-2IJCNLP-AACL-2023
- Multi-Lingual ESG Issue IdentificationIJCAI-2023
- ERAIEMNLP-2022
- FinSim-4IJCAI-ECAI-2022
- FinSim-3IJCAI-2021
- FinSBD-2IJCAI-2020
- FinSimIJCAI-2020
- FinSBDIJCAI-2019
Contact
For questions about FinEval shared tasks, contact aclsigfintech@gmail.com.