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DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task
Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Maram Alharbi +6
Sentiment analysis is a fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Standard sentiment classification for the Arabic language remains challenging due to the high volu…
StanceEval 2026: The Second Stance Detection Shared Task
Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman +6
StanceEval 2026 is the second edition of the StanceEval shared task series on stance detection in Arabic social media text. Stance detection aims to identify a writer's stance towa…
Halluscoring 2026: The first shared task on llms hallucination detection and answer verification
Aisha Alansari, Abdessalam Bouchekif, Ahmed Hasanaath +9
We present HalluScoring 2026, a shared task for evaluating hallucination detection and factual verification in Arabic question answering under challenging generalization settings.…
AraGenre 2026: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task
Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa +3
AraGenre is a shared task on hierarchical, definition-guided Arabic genre classification, motivated by the limited availability of annotated data in Arabic and other low-resource l…
AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation
Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy +6
Dialectal Arabic machine translation (MT) remains challenging despite recent progress in Arabic language technologies, particularly because effective translation requires modeling…
Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas +30
Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces unique challenges due to diglossia, extensive regional dialect variation, and limited speech resources. Existing speech datasets oft…
LëtzCross: A Cross-Lingual Page-Level Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval over Luxembourgish Documents
Omar El Bachyr, Fred Philippy, Laura Maria Bernardy +3
Recent page-image retrievers such as ColPali have improved retrieval over visually rich documents, yet little is known about how they behave in cross-lingual, low-resource settings…
Mawqif-XT: An Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Target Stance Detection
Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman +4
Publicly available Arabic datasets for target-specific stance detection remain limited, particularly for evaluating cross-target generalization. This paper presents the Mawqif-XT,…
Empirical Evaluation of PDF Parsing and Chunking for Financial Question Answering with RAG
Omar El Bachyr, Yewei Song, Saad Ezzini +5
PDF files are primarily intended for human reading rather than automated processing. In addition, the heterogeneous content of PDFs, such as text, tables, and images, poses signifi…
AHaSIS: Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects
Maram Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini +3
The hospitality industry in the Arab world increasingly relies on customer feedback to shape services, driving the need for advanced Arabic sentiment analysis tools. To address thi…
M-DAIGT: A Shared Task on Multi-Domain Detection of AI-Generated Text
Salima Lamsiyah, Saad Ezzini, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy +5
The generation of highly fluent text by Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant challenge to information integrity and academic research. In this paper, we introduce the M…
AraReasoner: Evaluating Reasoning-Based LLMs for Arabic NLP
Ahmed Hasanaath, Aisha Alansari, Ahmed Ashraf +3
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in reasoning abilities and general natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their performance on Arabic data, charac…
Is Small Language Model the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?
Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz +6
Low-resource languages (LRLs) lack sufficient linguistic resources and are underrepresented in benchmark datasets, resulting in persistently lower translation quality than high-res…
AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task
Sanad Malaysha, Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini +5
The expanding financial markets of the Arab world require sophisticated Arabic NLP tools. To address this need within the banking domain, the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) share…
DarijaBanking: A New Resource for Overcoming Language Barriers in Banking Intent Detection for Moroccan Arabic Speakers
Abderrahman Skiredj, Ferdaous Azhari, Ismail Berrada +1
Navigating the complexities of language diversity is a central challenge in developing robust natural language processing systems, especially in specialized domains like banking. T…
Letz Translate: Low-Resource Machine Translation for Luxembourgish
Yewei Song, Saad Ezzini, Jacques Klein +3
Natural language processing of Low-Resource Languages (LRL) is often challenged by the lack of data. Therefore, achieving accurate machine translation (MT) in a low-resource enviro…