Dear colleagues, We have some news we hope relevant to you. We, the Emergent Markets Welfare Project and the Text and Data Mining Competence Centre of the European Commission are organizing the workshop on Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from News (AESPEN) at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020) [1]. There is a shared-task, which is about Event Sentence Coreference Identification (ESCI), organized in the scope of this workshop as well. For information about the workshop, the shared task, and any updates, please check the workshop web page [1]. The detailed description of the shared task is on [2]. Sign and send the individual application form [3] to ahurriyetoglu@ku.edu.tr if you would like to participate in the shared task and receive the training data. The test data will be shared with the participants a week before the deadline. The shared task participants will have the possibility to submit a long or short paper to the workshop about their methodology and results. We have created an e-mail list [4] that aims at bringing people that work on or interested in collecting socio-political events together. We would love it if you join us there. Moreover, we would appreciate any help in spreading the word on Twitter [5], Linkedin [6], or any other platform you may like. Please do not hesitate to contact us for anything you may have in mind. Kind regards, Ali [1] https://emw.ku.edu.tr/aespen-2020/ [2] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ssgb2pp4mro57dj/AAAXvj3sIzlOky3cBGFhPDgIa?dl=0 [3] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b0qh751zj1mes90/AADDLYquo2uqWw3u1DmmL7dDa?dl=0 [4] automated-political-event-collection@googlegroups.com [5] https://twitter.com/hurrial/status/1224776668432273408 [6] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ali-hurriyetoglu_aespen-2020-activity-6630542...