CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2027) Co-located with COLING 2027, Macao, China Website: https://abjadnlp.com/ [1] Following its first edition at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi and its second at EACL 2026 in Rabat, AbjadNLP returns for its third edition, co-located with COLING 2027 in Macao, China. The workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic, its dialects, and the wider family of languages written in Arabic-derived scripts, including Perso-Arabic and African Ajami languages. We invite submissions on a broad range of topics, including machine translation, speech recognition and synthesis, large language models, OCR, language resources, code-switching, dialect variation, low-resource NLP and related areas. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Prof. Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia. SHARED TASKS AbjadNLP 2027 will feature nine shared tasks covering a range of languages and NLP challenges:
* AbjadGenEval: AI-generated text detection (Modern Standard Arabic, Urdu and Persian). * AbjadStyleTransfer: Authorship style transfer (Urdu). * AbjadAuthorID: Authorship identification (Kurdish and Urdu). * AbjadTranslit: Bidirectional Arabizi-Arabic transliteration. * AbjadSentEval: Sentiment analysis (Arabic dialects and an additional Arabic-script language, TBC). * AbjadStanceEval: Stance detection (Arabic varieties, with other Arabic-script languages under consideration). * Abjad Cross-Dialect Translation: Translation between Arabic dialects. * AbjadLanguageID: Language and language-cluster identification across Arabic-script languages. * TariQA: Moroccan traffic law question answering (Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan Darija).
Further information about each shared task, including participation guidelines and organiser details, is available on the workshop website. IMPORTANT DATES Direct Submission Deadline: 5 January 2027 Workshop Date: To be announced (during COLING 2027, 9-14 May 2027) Location: Macao, China Submission Portal: To be announced on https://abjadnlp.com/ [1] For the full Call for Papers, submission guidelines and shared-task details, please visit: https://abjadnlp.com/ [1] ORGANISING COMMITTEE The AbjadNLP 2027 organising committee consists of Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity, Vietnam, and Lancaster University, UK) as General Chair; Dr Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University, UK) and Dr Saad Ezzini (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) as Programme Chairs; Dr Amal Haddad Haddad (University of Granada, Spain) and Ms Cynthia Amol (Maseno University, Kenya) as Publicity Chairs; Dr Noura El Moussa (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia) and Ms Ghada Alshahrani (Lancaster University, UK) as Publication Chairs; and Dr Ahmad Abdelali (Sealth Startup, Saudi Arabia), Dr Shadi Abudalfa (Onaizah Colleges, Saudi Arabia) and Dr Pranav Gupta (Cisco, United States) as Shared-Task Chairs. The Advisory Committee comprises Prof. Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) and Prof. Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK).
We look forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you to AbjadNLP 2027! AbjadNLP 2027 Organising Committee