Call for Participation: OSACT7 Shared Tasks — LREC 2026

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Dear all,

Registration is now open for the shared tasks at OSACT7, the 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca, Spain (11–16 May 2026).
 
Participating teams will have the opportunity to submit a system paper. Accepted papers, following peer review, will be published in the OSACT 2026 workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology.
 
Shared Tasks

1- QIAS 2026: Questions & Answers in Islamic Studies Assessment
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/qias2026/
 
2- AdabEval 2026: Arabic Politeness Detection
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/adabeval2026/home
 
3- AraSentEval 2026: A Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Swapping in Arabic
Website: https://ezzini.github.io/AraSentEval/
 
4- AraHAHA 2026: Arabic Humour Generation
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/arhaha2026/home
 
5- KSAA 2026: Arabic Speech Dictation with Automatic Diacritisation
Website: https://arai.ksaa.gov.sa/sharedTask2026/
  
We warmly invite researchers and practitioners to participate. Full details, including datasets, evaluation protocols, and timelines, are available on the respective shared task websites.
 
For general information about OSACT7 and workshop participation, please visit the official workshop page: https://osact-lrec.github.io/
 
 
Best regards,
OSACT7 Organizing Committee