Weโre organizing the NADI shared task for the seventh year in a row. NADI 2026 will focus on speech technology, with a wide range of tasks. Tasks include real-world automatic speech recognition, speech dialect identification, text-to-speech, and speech translation. Join us!
๐ New to Shared Tasks? Want to participate in challenges like multimodal understanding, LLM safety, and online safety?
Join our short online session covering:
โ What shared tasks are
โ How to participate
โ Writing your system paper
โ Dos & don'ts
๐ 11 June 2026, 4 PM (GMT+3)
๐ป Online
Register: https://t.co/LpJ1VHgIld
#ArabicNLP #NLP #SharedTasks #ArabicNLP2026 #AI #Research #NLProc
๐ข Excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task 2026: The Second Shared Task on Arabic Readability Assessment, held as part of ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026.
๐ Website: https://t.co/qyGBrFQSs7
The shared task focuses on fine-grained Arabic readability classification across 19 levels, using the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1 million words.
Participants will develop models for both sentence-level and document-level readability assessment, with three tracks for each task: Strict, Constrained, and Open.
๐ Awards will be given to top-performing systems.
Organizers: @khalid_elmadani, @balhafni, @HanadaEducation and @NYHabash
We look forward to your participation!
Got questions or need support?
๐ง Email us: [email protected]
๐ฌ Join our Slack: https://t.co/RGCV7Y3Y0P
#ArabicNLP #ArabicNLP2026 #EMNLP2026
๐ข Call for Participation - ArGuard 2026 Shared Task at ArabicNLP 2026 (co-located with EMNLP 2026)
We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in ArGuard 2026: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts.
The shared task introduces two tracks:
โข Track A: Multimodal Hateful Meme Detection
โข Track B: Harmful Prompt Detection for LLMs
ArGuard focuses on Arabic-specific challenges including dialects, sarcasm, cultural references, code-switching, and implicit harmful intent.
๐ Website: https://t.co/E13Br12i9t
๐ Data/Code: https://t.co/NBNzch6y5I
๐ Important Dates
โข August 1, 2026 โ Registration deadline & test set release
โข August 6, 2026 โ Evaluation deadline
โข August 8, 2026 โ Leaderboard release
โข August 18, 2026 โ Shared task papers due
โข August 30, 2026 โ Notification of acceptance
โข September 10, 2026 โ Camera-ready papers due
โข October 24โ29, 2026 โ ArabicNLP 2026 Conference
#ArabicNLP #EMNLP2026 #LLMSafety #MultimodalAI #ArabicAI #NLP @_ArabicNLP
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@wzaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, @Hamdy_Mubarak, @gmikros
AI-generated maps in a scientific conference talk are a bold choiceโฆ especially when the borders seem to have been peer-reviewed by hallucinating artificial stupidity.
Please donโt do this. Maps are not decorative filler: borders, place names, and regions carry real history, politics, and people.
ูุนูู ุจุงููู ุนูููู ุ ุงูุฎุฑุงุฆุท ู ุด ุฏูููุฑ ูุญุทู ููุนุฏูู. ุงูุญุฏูุฏ ูุฃุณู ุงุก ุงูุฃู ุงูู ูุฑุงูุง ุชุงุฑูุฎ ูุณูุงุณุฉ ููุงุณ ุญููููููุ ูุจูุงุด ูุณูุจูุง ูุจุฑุงู ุฌ ุบุจุงุก ุงุตุทูุงุนู ุจุชูููุณ.
Second Call For Papers is out!
- Abstract submission deadline: June 18th, 2026
- Full paper submission deadline: June 25th, 2026
Visit our website for more information on submission instructions: https://t.co/zBrgbibzOs
Great news for the Arabic NLP community! ๐
๐ข Call for Shared Task Proposals is now open!
ุงูุฅุนูุงู ุงูุฃูู ููุฏุนูุฉ ูุชูุฏูู (Shared Tasks) ุถู ู ุงูู ุคุชู ุฑ ุงูุฑุงุจุน ููู ุนุงูุฌุฉ ุงูุขููุฉ ููุบุฉ ุงูุนุฑุจูุฉ ArabicNLP 2026ุ ูุงูุฐู ุณููุนูุฏ ุจุงูุชุฒุงู ู ู ุน EMNLP 2026 ูู ุจูุฏุงุจุณุชุ ููุบุงุฑูุงุ ุฎูุงู ุงููุชุฑุฉ 24โ29 ุฃูุชูุจุฑ 2026.
๐๏ธ ุขุฎุฑ ู ูุนุฏ ูุชูุฏูู Shared Tasks: 25 ุฃุจุฑูู 2026
โ ุฅุดุนุงุฑุงุช ุงููุจูู: 2 ู ุงูู 2026
๐ ุฑุงุจุท ุงูุชูุฏูู :
https://t.co/iaZlQGSzHy
Great news for the Arabic NLP community! ๐
๐ข Call for Shared Task Proposals is now open!
The first call for Shared Task Proposals for ArabicNLP 2026 is now out. The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, on October 24โ29, 2026.
๐๏ธ Shared Task proposal submission deadline: April 25, 2026
โ Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2026
๐ Submission link:
https://t.co/iaZlQGSzHy
#ArabicNLP2026 #ArabicNLP #SharedTasks #ArabicNLPSharedTasks #EMNLP2026
โ CAMeL Lab will be at #EACL2026 ๐ฒ๐ฆ presenting the following papers:
- "Computational Benchmarks for Egyptian Arabic Child Directed Speech" [Main]
- "A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic" [Main]
- "Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM Benchmarks" [Findings]
๐ค Keynote at #EACL2026
Speaker: Nizar Habash
Title: โArabic and Technology: A 40-Year Perspectiveโ
Donโt miss this keynote tomorrow in Session 1: Plenary (10:00โ11:00), right after the conference opening session!
ูุญุชูู ุงูููู ุจุงูุฐูุฑู ุงูุฑุงุจุนุฉ ูุชุฃุณูุณ ุฑุงุจุทุฉ ุญูุณุจุฉ ุงููุบุฉ ุงูุนุฑุจูุฉ ูู ุฌู ุนูุฉ ุงููุบููุงุช ุงูุญุงุณูุจูุฉ (SIGARAB) (20 ููุงูุฑ 2022). ุชุถู ุงูุฑุงุจุทุฉ ุงูููู ุฃูุซุฑ ู ู 1,100 ุนุถู ู ู ู ุฎุชูู ุฃูุญุงุก ุงูุนุงูู .
ุดูุฑูุง ููู ุนูู ุฏุนู ูู ูู ุดุงุฑูุชูู ุงูู ุณุชู ุฑุฉุ ููุชุทูุน ุฅูู ู ุฒูุฏ ู ู ุงูุชุนุงูู ูุงูุฅูุฌุงุฒุงุช ุงููุงุฏู ุฉ.
Today marks the 4th anniversary of the ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic Language Computing (SIGARAB) (January 20, 2022). The group now includes over 1,100 members worldwide.
Thank you for your continued support and engagement. We look forward to the years ahead.
The founder of SIGARAB, Prof. Nizar Habash, has been elected as an ACL Fellow (@aclmeeting).
Congratulations!
ุงูุจุฑูููุณุฑ ูุฒุงุฑ ุญุจุด ููู ู ุคุณุณ "SIGARAB" ุฃุตุจุญ ุฒู ููุง ูู ุฑุงุจุทุฉ ุงููุบููุงุช ุงูุญุงุณูุจูุฉ (ACL) ููุนุงู ูขู ูขูฅ. ุชูุงูููุง ูู ูุงูุนูุจู ูุฌู ูุน ุจุงุญุซููุง!
We are delighted to share that Prof. Nizar Habash has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This recognition reflects his decades of contributions to computational linguistics and his leadership in advancing Arabic NLP.
We extend our warmest congratulations to all newly named ACL Fellows, an inspiring group of scholars whose work continues to shape our field.
https://t.co/xhtpVCz4Hy
We would like to get an estimate of how many people from our community are planning to be in Suzhou, China, for EMNLP and/or ArabicNLP 2025. Additionally, for the first time, ArabicNLP 2025 will span over two days, featuring an exciting program ahead!
ูุฏู ูุฐุง ุงูุงุณุชุจูุงู ูู ุชูุฏูุฑุนุฏุฏ ุงููุงุฏู ูู ุฅูู ุณูุฌู ูู ุงูุตููุ ูุญุถูุฑ ู ุคุชู ุฑู ArabicNLP ู EMNLP.
ู ุคุชู ุฑูุง ููุฐุง ุงูุนุงู ููุฃูู ู ุฑุฉ ุณููุงู ุนูู ู ุฏู ููู ูู ุจุฏูุง ู ู ููู ูุงุญุฏ! ุณูุนูู ุนู ุงุงูุจุฑูุงู ุฌ ูุฑูุจุง ุฅู ุดุงุก ุงููู!
Please click on the link below to fill out the form: ุงุถุบุท ุนูู ุงูุฑุงุจุท ุฃุฏูุงู ูู ูุฃ ุงูุงุณุชุจูุงู
https://t.co/6ailt7oQmf