NAKBA-NLP 2025

The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Part of the COLING-2025 [1] Conference

Abu Dhabi, UAE (Fully Virtual)

January 20, 2025

https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/

OVERVIEW

The narratives of the (ongoing) Palestinian Nakba possess significant historical, cultural, literary, and academic value. Preserving this content and empowring it with AI tools is crucial for ensuring its accessibility and usability for present and future generations. Nakba narratives and testimonies exist in diverse formats such as manuscripts, books, audio recordings, novels, and films. Converting this content into a machine-understandable format presents a notable challenge. Establishing accessible archives and well-annotated collections is essential for researchers and historians to verify and share meaningful information.

This workshop aims to explore how artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics can assist in understanding, disseminating and preserving, Nakba narratives and testimonies. The goal is to create accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated collections that empower researchers and historians to validate and share critical insights derived from these data. The workshop targets datasets and narratives in Arabic, English, and other languages, however, submitted articles should be written in English.

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to the exploration and preservation of Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. All submitted papers should explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals. We seek contributions on the following issues of interest:

* Digitisation 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 visualisation * 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)

Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5],Alhaq [6],ICHR [7], as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

All submitted papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals.

Submissions may be of two types:

* Long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.

The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy Policy. [8]

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 * Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 * Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed).

Links: ------ [1] https://coling2025.org/ [2] https://www.palestine-studies.org/ [3] https://palmuseum.org/en [4] https://www.nakba-archive.org/ [5] https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/ [6] https://www.alhaq.org/ [7] https://www.ichr.ps/en [8] https://coling2022.org/policy