Dear all,
Registration is now open for the shared tasks at AbjadNLP 2026, which will run at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. The workshop will host four shared tasks covering Arabic and other Abjad languages. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/
Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the AbjadNLP 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology.
Shared Tasks
1. AbjadGenEval AI-generated text detection for languages using Arabic script https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadGenEval/
2. AbjadStyleTransfer Authorship style transfer while preserving meaning https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadStyleTransfer/
3. AbjadAuthorID Authorship identification across genres and historical periods https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadAuthorID/
4. Medical Text Classification in Arabic Multi-class classification task in the medical domain https://balajinaga.github.io/EACL2026-Abjad-NLP-SharedTask/
We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including data, evaluation, and timelines, are available on the task websites.
Best regards, Mo - AbjadNLP 2026 https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ ————
Dr Mo El-Haj Director of NLP @ VinUniversity Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam SCC, Lancaster University, UK https://elhaj.uk https://arabicnlp.ukhttps://arabicnlp.uk/ https://vinnlp.com