Last Call for Participation: StanceEval-2026 Shared Task at ArabicNLP/EMNLP 2026

[Nuha Albadi]

Dear Colleagues, 

This is the last call for participation in the StanceEval-2026 shared task on Arabic stance detection, at ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.

Stance detection remains an important and challenging task in Arabic NLP, particularly when models are required to generalize beyond targets observed during training.

To encourage research in this direction, StanceEval-2026 introduces two competition tracks:

• Seen Targets: training and evaluation on targets seen during training. 
• Unseen Targets: evaluation on new targets to assess model generalization beyond training settings.

🏆 Prize Pool: $1,600
📅 Registration Deadline: July 20, 2026 Full details and registration: https://stanceeval.github.io

Sponsors: SDAIA-KFUPM JRC for AI and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Task Organizers: Rasha Albalawi*, Nuha Albadi*, Hamzah Luqman*, Saad Ezzini*, Maram Kurdi*, Asma Yamani*, Ahmed Ashraf*, Maged Saeed*, and Nora S. Alturayeif** * KFUPM, KSA ** HUMAIN, KSA