Call for Participation: StanceNakba 2026 Shared Task (LREC 2026)
Wajdi Zaghouani
Dear SIGARAB Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in StanceNakba 2026, a shared task co-located with LREC 2026 (Spain) and organized by the MARSAD Lab as part of Nakba-NLP 2026: The 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources.
The shared task focuses on Actor- and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in polarized social media discourse related to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.
Task Overview
Subtask A (English): Actor-Level Stance Detection
Labels: Pro-Palestine | Pro-Israel | NeutralSubtask B (Arabic): Cross-Topic Stance Detection
Labels: Favor | Against | Neither
Topics: normalization with Israel and refugee presence in Jordan
Dataset & Evaluation
2,606 manually annotated social media posts
English and Arabic datasets
Primary evaluation metric: Macro-F1
Important Dates
Training data release: January 10, 2026
System submission deadline: February 17, 2026
Workshop: May 11–16, 2026 (TBC)
Participation in the shared task is free of charge. Please note that at least one member of each participating team must be registered for the conference.
Further details, data access, and submission instructions are available on the shared task website: https://marsadlab.github.io/stancenakba/index.html
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at stanc...@gmail.com.
We warmly encourage you to join us in advancing stance detection research and improving our understanding of polarized online discourse.
Kind regards,
The StanceNakba 2026 Organizing Team
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Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Communication Program
Northwestern Qatar | Education City
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