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The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024)

Co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2024. (Hybrid Mode).

Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/

ArabicNLP 2024 builds on eight previous conference and workshop editions, which have been very successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities (See Scholar Page https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGzh8jYAAAAJ). This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB https://www.sigarab.org/), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP. This announcement combines two calls: (1) a call for shared task proposals, and (2) a call for conference papers.

Call for Shared Task Proposals

We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference.

The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resource collection and creation, task description, pilot run details (if available), a tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, email, affiliation). Proposals in PDF format can be up to 4 pages.

Shared Task Proposal Submission URL: https://shorturl.at/eCJOS

Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals

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January 23, 2024: Submission of shared tasks proposals due date -

February 6, 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared tasks -

Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls -

April 29, 2024: Shared task papers due date -

June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance -

June 24, 2024: Camera-ready papers due -

August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12 (“Anywhere on Earth”).

For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chair: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org

Call for Papers

We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work.

Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

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Enabling technologies: (any size) language models, diacritization, lemmatization, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. -

Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media analytics, etc. -

Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. We also welcome position papers and surveys about any of the above topics.

Conference Paper Submission URL: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022 TBA

Important Dates for Conference Papers

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April 22, 2024: Abstract submission for conference papers due date -

April 29, 2024: Conference paper due date -

May 21, 2024: Reviews submission deadline -

June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance -

June 24, 2024: Camera-ready papers due -

August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference 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: arabicnlp-pc-chairs@sigarab.org

The ArabicNLP 2024 Organizing Committee