AraSentEval 2026 - Arabic Text Sentiment Swapping

[Shadi Abudalfa]

As an extension of our research work on Arabic Text Sentiment Swapping, we’re excited to announce a new shared task titled AraSentEval 2026.

The shared task will be hosted at the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7), co-located with LREC 2026.

We warmly encourage researchers and practitioners in Arabic NLP to participate in this challenge and register their teams for:

🔹 AraSentEval 2026: A Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Sentiment Swapping in Arabic
🔗 Shared task website: https://ezzini.github.io/AraSentEval/

For background information and methodological details on sentiment swapping, please refer to our related paper:
📄 Springer link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-025-09895-4

📖 Read-only access: https://rdcu.be/eV83g

To explore a portion of the shared task dataset used for sentiment swapping, please visit:
📂 https://github.com/sabudalfa/ArabicTextSentimentSwap/tree/main

We look forward to your participation and to advancing research in Arabic NLP together!

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Shadi I. Abudalfa

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering

SDAIA-KFUPM JRC for Artificial Intelligence

http://www.linkedin.com/in/shadiabudalfa

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