Daleel 2026 - Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining Shared Task
ArabicNLP Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026
Dear All,
Registration is now open for Daleel 2026: Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining Shared Task, which will be held as part of the ArabicNLP 2026 Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.
The shared task focuses on the detection and classification of argumentative discourse units in Arabic across two text genres: Editorials and Debates.
Tasks
- Task 1: Argumentative Discourse Unit Classification
- Task 2: Argumentative Discourse Unit Detection
Awards
Monetary prizes will be awarded to the authors of the top three system description papers:
- 1st Place: $400
- 2nd Place: $200
- 3rd Place: $150
Important Dates
- June 5, 2026: Release of data, baselines, and evaluation scripts
- July 25, 2026: Registration deadline and release of final evaluation input data
- July 30, 2026: System submission deadline and final evaluation
- August 6, 2026: System description paper submission deadline
- August 13, 2026: Notification of acceptance
- August 22, 2026: Camera-ready submission of system papers
For questions, please contact: dale...@argsbase.net
We look forward to your participation and to advancing research in Arabic argument mining together.
Organizers
- Sara Nabhani, University of Groningen
- Nahla Bassyouni, QatarDebate
- Ali Al-Zawqari, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Mohammad Khader, QatarDebate
- Khalid Al-Khatib, University of Groningen