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, we are currently calling for task proposals. Once selected, accepted tasks will be announced here and on the official FinEval page in early July.
What We Look For
A strong FinEval task proposal addresses an open problem in financial AI with a concrete, evaluable design. Reviewers will assess proposals on the following:
- Problem definition. Clear, well-motivated open challenge in FinNLP / FinAI / financial law. Why now, why this task.
- Dataset. A high-quality, openly accessible dataset, or a concrete plan to construct one before training data release (July 1). License must permit research use and redistribution.
- Evaluation. Well-defined metrics, reproducible baselines, and a description of expected difficulty range.
- Reproducibility. A commitment to releasing starter kits, baselines, evaluation scripts, and (where applicable) training code as open-source.
- Organizing team. Minimum two committed organizers covering data, evaluation, and communication. Diversity across institutions and career stages is encouraged.
- Timeline feasibility. A realistic plan to deliver data, baselines, and run evaluation within the FinEval 2026 calendar.
Organizing roles typically include: Lead Organizer (oversees task and deliverables), Co-Organizers (data preparation, evaluation, communication), and Advisory Organizers (guidance without daily involvement).
How to Submit a Proposal
Send proposals as a single PDF to aclsigfintech@gmail.com with the subject line "FinEval 2026 Task Proposal — <Task Name>".
Required components
- Task title and one-line description (≤ 25 words).
- Motivation and problem definition (½–1 page).
- Dataset description — source, size, splits, licensing, status (existing / to-be-built), and access plan.
- Evaluation metrics and at least one baseline result (or a plan to provide one by July 1).
- Organizing team — names, affiliations, roles, brief bios.
- Timeline aligned with the FinEval 2026 schedule below.
- Expected number of participants and any prior community traction (workshops, leaderboards, etc.).
Proposals are typically 2–4 pages. There is no template requirement at the proposal stage.
June 20, 2026 (AoE). Proposals submitted later may still be considered if review capacity remains.
Important Dates
Phase 1 · Proposal| Call for task proposals | June 6, 2026 |
| Proposal submission deadline | June 20, 2026 (AoE) |
| Final task list announced | July 1, 2026 |
Activated once the task list is announced. Per-task pages will publish detailed schedules.
| Training data & starter kits release | July 1, 2026 |
| Test phase / final predictions | August 4, 2026 (AoE) |
| System paper submission | August 11, 2026 (AoE) |
| Author notification | 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)
System papers follow the main Call for Papers timeline. 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.