Registration Open – Shared Tasks at AbjadNLP 2026

[El-Haj, Mo]

Dear all,

Registration is now open for the shared tasks at AbjadNLP 2026, which will run at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. The workshop will host four shared tasks covering Arabic and other Abjad languages. https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the AbjadNLP 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology.

Shared Tasks

1. AbjadGenEval

AI-generated text detection for languages using Arabic script

https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadGenEval/

2. AbjadStyleTransfer

Authorship style transfer while preserving meaning

https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadStyleTransfer/

3. AbjadAuthorID

Authorship identification across genres and historical periods

https://ezzini.github.io/AbjadAuthorID/

4. Medical Text Classification in Arabic

Multi-class classification task in the medical domain

https://balajinaga.github.io/EACL2026-Abjad-NLP-SharedTask/

We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including data, evaluation, and timelines, are available on the task websites.

Best regards,

Mo - AbjadNLP 2026

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

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Dr Mo El-Haj

Director of NLP @ VinUniversity 

Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP

CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam 

SCC, Lancaster University, UK

https://elhaj.uk 

https://arabicnlp.uk

https://vinnlp.com