Nakba-NLP 2026
2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
Part of the LREC-2026 Conference
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
May 11-16, 2025
https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1]
We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics:
- Digitisation of oral and written narratives
- Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets
- Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up
- Annotation tools and annotation guidelines
- Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval
- Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events
- Entity linking and relationship extraction
- Event detection and event argument extraction
- Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data
- Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies
- Data visualization
- Knowledge representation
- Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing
- Natural Language Generation
- Large Language Models
- Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction
- Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives
Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph.
Important Dates:
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All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
* 15 Jan 2026 - Shared-task training set release * 15 Feb 2026 - Shared-task blind test release * 1 Mar 2026 - Shared-task system submissions * 10 Mar 2026 - Shared-task results * 20 Mar 2026 - Paper submission deadline * 15 Apr 2026 - Acceptance notifications * 30 Apr 2026 - Camera-ready deadline * 11-16 May 2026 - LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC)
Organizing Committee:
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* Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University
* Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity
* Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University
* Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam
* Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
* Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University
* Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
* Amal Haddad, University of Granada
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