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The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023) Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore.

Conference URL: https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/

We invite you to submit proposals for shared tasks to be run as part of WANLP 2023. WANLP 2023 will run as a conference for the first time. WANLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. With the move to a conference format, we aim to bring a larger participation from the Arabic NLP community. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing.

Submission Details

The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resources (how the data will be collected), task description (what are the tasks to be included), evaluation (proposed evaluation method for each task), pilot run (if available), tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, affiliation). Proposals (up to 4 pages) should be sent to: wanlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org

Please use the ACL template files: https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/

Selection Process

The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and will be selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.

Task Organization

Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.

Important Dates

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May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals -

May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks -

September 5, 2023: conference paper & shared task papers due date -

October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance -

October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due -

Conference Date (one day): TBD (timeframe: December 6-10) All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12 (“Anywhere on Earth”).

If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org

The WANLP 2023 Organizing Committee

Best regards,

WANLP publicity chairs: Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg