Call for Shared Task Proposals for OSACT7 - 2026
El-Haj, Mo
Call for Shared Task Proposals for OSACT7 - 2026
We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the 7th Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools OSACT7 - 2026 workshop, which we plan to propose as part of LREC 2026. Proposals should include the following details:
- Overview of the proposed task
- Motivation for the task
- Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: planned, in progress, or ready)
- Task Description
- Pilot Run Details (if available)
- Tentative Timeline
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Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation)
Proposals should be submitted in PDF format and can be up to 4 pages long.
Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/812eF5upNjG7W1Ee9
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
Selection Process
The proposals will be reviewed by the organising committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.
Task Organization
Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participant submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.
Important Dates
- September 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due
- September 13th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance
Proposals should target the following tentative dates when planning their calls:
- December 15, 2025: Release of training, dev and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts
- February 10, 2026: Registration deadline and release of test data
- February 17, 2026: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes)
- February 24, 2026: Final results released
- March 10, 2026: System description paper submissions due
- March 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance
- March 30, 2026: Camera-ready versions due
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May 2026 (TBC): Main Conference (LREC 2026)
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
Note: A reminder that this call is seeking to identify which shared tasks the community would like to see co-located with OSACT. However, please be aware that we are still awaiting confirmation on whether OSACT will be accepted as part of LREC 2026. Final arrangements will therefore depend on the outcome of that decision.
Best wishes,
Mo
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Dr Mo El-Haj
El-Haj, Mo
Shared Task Proposal Submission deadline: September 6th, 2025:
Best wishes,
Mo
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Mo
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Dr Mo El-Haj
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Cc: Hend Al-Khalifa <hend.al...@gmail.com>; Saad Ezzini <saad....@kfupm.edu.sa>; Kareem Darwish <kareemm...@gmail.com>