ARHAHA 2026: Shared Task at OSACT7 (LREC 2026)

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We’re excited to invite you to take part in ARHAHA 2026, a shared task on Arabic Humor Generation, hosted at OSACT7 and co-located with LREC 2026.

 

Description:

Participants will develop systems that generate original, safe, and culturally appropriate humorous content in Arabic under a set of carefully designed constraints. The task aims to push models beyond memorization and towards genuine humorous creativity.

 

Humor Generation Task

This task focuses on building and evaluating systems that generate short humorous texts in Arabic given constrained prompts.

 

Task Summary

Input: A pair of Arabic words

Output: A short humorous Arabic text (maximum 100 characters)

 

Evaluation:

Automated format and constraint validation

Human evaluation of humor quality, originality, fluency, and cultural appropriateness

 

The website for the shared task is: 

https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home

 

How to Participate?

 Registration is required, please complete the registration form.

 Join the ARAHAHA at Slack workspace.

 

System Description Papers

All participating teams are encouraged to submit a short system description paper. Papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and do not require high leaderboard ranking. We welcome creative approaches, analysis, and lessons learned.

 

Contact

For questions or clarifications, please contact the organizing team at arhah...@gmail.com

 

We look forward to your participation and contributions!

 

Best regards,

The ARHAHA 2026 Organizing Team