*BAREC Shared Task 2025 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_sharedtask2025&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=nPvkQArGGKcw9R18aAwfx0tTvYdJwOwPFW2KpQQ_JmU&e=* *Arabic Readability Assessment* *The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arabicnlp2025.sigarab.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=NCIk5tVOpDm9u73i8hQw7J5XDWxFCKj_R9LlD32mw-c&e=* @ *EMNLP 2025 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__2025.emnlp.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=zrzzLXb0-RXmVYgUFqgXHMdVg1Cz44ISIVdsTVHlPck&e=*
We are excited to announce the BAREC Shared Task https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_sharedtask2025&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=nPvkQArGGKcw9R18aAwfx0tTvYdJwOwPFW2KpQQ_JmU&e= 2025 on fine-grained readability classification across 19 levels using the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a dataset of over 1 million words. Participants will build models for both sentence- and document-level classification.
*Task 1: Sentence-level Readability Assessment* Given an Arabic sentence, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 (i.e., first grade) to 19 (i.e., university level), indicating the degree of reading difficulty.
*Task 2: Document-level Readability Assessment* Given a document consisting of multiple sentences, predict its readability level on a scale from 1 to 19, where the hardest (i.e., highest readability) sentence in the document determines the overall document readability level.
For each task, there will be three tracks, allowing different data sources for training: Strict, Constrained, and Open.
*Important Dates:* All deadlines are 11:59pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth):
- *June 10, 2025:* Release of training, dev and open test data, and evaluation scripts. - *July 20, 2025:* Registration deadline and release of test data. - *July 25, 2025:* End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes). - *July 30, 2025: *Final results released. - *August 15, 2025:* System description paper submissions due. - *August 25, 2025: *Notification of acceptance. - *September 5, 2025:* Camera-ready versions due.
*Awards:*
- *Top-performing Systems:* - We will recognize the top-performing system in each of the two tasks + track combinations (2 tasks × 3 tracks), with a *$100 *prize per winning team. - *Best System Description Papers:* - We will award one or two prizes for Best System Description Papers. These will recognize clarity, reproducibility, and insight, regardless of leaderboard ranking: - Best Paper: *$250* - Runner-up or Honorable Mention: *$150*
*Organizers:*
- *Khalid N. Elmadani https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__khalid-2Delmadani.github.io_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=wpy32F5ra-PPRvCZNVw7K-RndmQV6Lqn47DclVxomcE&e=*: New York University Abu Dhabi - *Bashar Alhafni https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.basharalhafni.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=W6HqoOP0UQC_zwC6Vt-afyryDYhlnW12N686Apg8mxU&e=*: New York University Abu Dhabi and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence - *Hanada Taha-Thomure https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__hanadataha.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=2_m2LAJmibvRb7aYkpRPrmmA8hAkXFRE_v0rGFNPZLQ&e=*: Zayed University - *Nizar Habash https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nizarhabash.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=JeTNYb9qoi8VcyxfKRDwDLMMbAl_fRpEPxnf3o0u3I0&e=*: New York University Abu Dhabi
*Shared Task Website: *https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025
*Contact:* For any questions related to this task, check out the *FAQs https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__barec.camel-2Dlab.com_sharedtask2025_faqs&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=x5352hLkEc3ASkqDXhEUrXOFFuTsx26Q4J8IyuAV1_o&e=*. Feel free to post your questions on our *Slack workspace https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__join.slack.com_t_barec2025sharedtask_shared-5Finvite_zt-2D371glipo5-2DYuFLXTNoIwkmEHoQyECxMQ&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=wEdtPlSPC82pxZClW5Tdqw&m=j8BQEDzjA_lh9yzeqoAQznsdn2TmHlSRMUCVzSmC7RNOZPBB-xgghhiwo0Ea1y6i&s=aX-EEAjsOTX-6hoxmMe_CAWqxux4b1u2ZOGXJc7e-2c&e=*. You are also welcome to contact the organizers directly at this email address: barec25.organizers@camel-lab.com.