Fourth ArabicNLP 2026 -- FINAL CALL! Please Read!!

[Salam Khalifa]

Salam all,

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts to ArabicNLP 2026 is June 18 at 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”). Please note that the abstract submission is required.

All submissions must adhere to ACL Policy on Publication Ethics, including guidelines on “Generative Assistance in Authorship.”

In addition, submissions with hallucinated references will be desk-rejected. (See recent ACL statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References).
Authors are also required to include a “Limitations” section in their papers.

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The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2026)
Co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2026). (Hybrid Mode).
Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/
Submission types
ArabicNLP 2026 accepts long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), and demo papers  (up to 4 pages). Accepted papers will be allowed one additional page in their final version to help authors address the reviewers’ comments. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work.
Theme: Towards Inclusive Arabic NLP
Submissions may include work-in-progress or completed research focusing on Arabic in all its forms—including Modern Standard, Classical, and dialectal varieties (e.g., Maghrebi, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf), as well as code-switched or mixed-language text. We particularly encourage work addressing under-resourced or historically overlooked varieties, recognizing that truly inclusive NLP must extend beyond high-resource, standardized forms to reflect the language’s actual diversity. We also welcome research on related Semitic (e.g., Hebrew, Amharic) or Arabic-script languages (e.g., Persian, Urdu) that share computational challenges, alongside descriptions of commercial or deployed systems, provided there is a willingness to share technical details. Finally, we encourage work that leverages Arabic resources or methodologies to benefit other languages, broadening the community’s impact across related writing systems and language families.
Topics of interest
We welcome submissions on topics including (but not limited to):

• Core Arabic NLP: segmentation/tokenization, morphological & morphosyntactic analysis/disambiguation, POS tagging, NER, parsing, SRL, text classification (e.g., sentiment, offensiveness/hate speech), etc.
• Machine learning for Arabic: modeling and systems for generative/discriminative approaches, domain adaptation, transfer learning, multilingual/multidialectal learning, evaluation methodology.
• Arabic Large Language Models: pretraining, instruction tuning, alignment, benchmarking, robustness, fairness, culturally-grounded evaluation.
• Applications: MT, summarization, dialogue, creative generation/analysis, ASR/TTS, retrieval, OCR, educational and assistive technologies, social media analytics.
• Resources & infrastructure: corpora, lexicons/dictionaries, annotation guidelines, benchmarks, tools supporting Arabic NLP research and deployment.
• Ethics & Trust: bias, safety, misinformation, and the responsible development of Arabic NLP.

Shared tasks
ArabicNLP typically hosts shared tasks to engage the community; a separate Call for Shared Task Proposals was issued, and selected tasks will run as part of the event.
Submission Instructions

• Conference Paper Submission URL:
• Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (Latex). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines, general to “*ACL” conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.

Additional Instructions
• No PDF required for abstract submission.
• Submissions are editable (including authorship) until the deadline.
• The limitations section:  The limitations section is required.
• All submissions must adhere to ACL Policy on Publication Ethics.

Important Dates

• June 18, 2026: Abstract submission for conference papers due date
• June 25, 2026: Direct conference paper submission due date
• July 16, 2026: Reviews submission deadline
• July 24 - July 31, 2026: Rebuttal period
• August 2, 2026: ARR commitment deadline
• August 7, 2026: Metareview deadline
• August 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance
• September 10, 2026: Camera-ready papers due
• October 28-29, 2026: ArabicNLP conference

          All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).

More information will be posted on the ArabicNLP 2026 website: https://arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/
If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp...@sigarab.org.
We look forward to your submissions and participation.

Best regards,
The ArabicNLP 2026 Organizing Committee