Nakba-NLP 2025

International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Part of the COLING 2025 Conference

Abu Dhabi (virtual)

January 20, 2025

https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1]

We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics:

◈ Digitization 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 visualization

◈ 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)

Suggested Datasets: a list of datasets can be found here https://t.ly/00Ul6 [2]

Important Dates:

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All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).

- Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024

- Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024

- Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed)

Organizing Committee:

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- Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine

- Nizar Habash, New York University, UAE

- Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK

- Zeina Jallad, Harvard Law School, USA

- Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University, France

- Diana Allan, McGill University, Canada

- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK

Publicity Chairs

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- Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain

- Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine

Contact: Nakba-NLP25_coling2025@softconf.com

Links: ------ [1] https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/ [2] https://t.ly/00Ul6