Nakba-NLP 2025
International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
Part of the COLING 2025 Conference
Abu Dhabi (virtual)
January 20, 2025
https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1]
We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, 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:
◈ Digitization of oral and written narratives
◈ Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets
◈ Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up
◈ Annotation tools and annotation guidelines
◈ Document classification, topic modeling, 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
◈ Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR
◈ Palestinian dialects (written and spoken)
Suggested Datasets: a list of datasets can be found here https://t.ly/00Ul6 [2]
Important Dates:
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All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
- Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024
- Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024
- Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed)
Organizing Committee:
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- Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine
- Nizar Habash, New York University, UAE
- Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK
- Zeina Jallad, Harvard Law School, USA
- Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University, France
- Diana Allan, McGill University, Canada
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Publicity Chairs
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- Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain
- Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine
Contact: Nakba-NLP25_coling2025@softconf.com
Links: ------ [1] https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/ [2] https://t.ly/00Ul6