Call for Participation: Nakba-NLP 2025 Workshop

[Mustafa Jarrar]

Nakba-NLP 2025

1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Part of the COLING 2025 Conference

Fully virtual  - January 20, 2025

دعوة لحضور ورشة النكبة 

Workshop: https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp 

Registration: https://coling2025.org/registration/ 

11:15(GMT) Panel Discussion: Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage in the LLMs Era.

Chair: Mo El-Haj

Panelists:

   Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada.

   Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Autonomous University Madrid, Spain.

   Dawn Knight, Cardiff University, UK.

   Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine.

16:00 (GMT) Keynote Speaker: Ilan Pappe 

Title: The Words Laundrette: Unmasking Bias and Propaganda in the Discourses on the Ongoing Nakba

Workshop Program:

09:00(GMT) Opening Session 

09:20(GMT)  Propaganda Detection

Integrating Argumentation Features for Enhanced Propaganda Detection in Arabic Narratives on the Israeli War on Gaza. Sara Nabhani, Claudia Borg, Kurt Micallef, and Khalid Al-Khatib

Multilingual Propaganda Detection: Exploring Transformer-Based Models mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and mT5. Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed and Walaa Medhat.

10:00(GMT)  Bias Detection

The Missing Cause: An Analysis of Causal Attributions in Reporting on Palestine. Paulina Garcia Corral, Hannah Bechara, Krishnamoorthy Manohara and Slava Jankin

Deciphering Implicatures: On NLP and Oral Testimonies. Zainab Sabra

10:40 Break

11:15 Panel Discussion (See Above)

https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/#panel 

12:30 Lunch Break

13:00 (GMT)  Classification of Nakba Narratives

Sentiment Analysis of Nakba Oral Histories: A Critical Study of Large Language Models.Huthaifa I. Ashqar.

Arabic Topic Classification Corpus of the Nakba Short Stories. Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani.

Exploring Author Style in Nakba Short Stories: A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Models. Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani.

13:45 Break 

14:00 (GMT)  Tagging of Nakba Narratives

NakbaTR: A Turkish NER Dataset for Nakba Narratives.Esma Fatıma Bilgin Tasdemir and Şaziye Betül Özateş.

The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature. Izza AbuHaija, Salim Al Mandhari, Mo El-Haj, Jonas Sibony and Paul Rayson.

Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement. Annie K. Lamar, Rick Castle, Carissa Chappell, Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki, Allene M. Seet, Amit Shilo and Chloe Nahas.

15:00 (GMT)  Nakba Narratives

Collective Memory and Narrative Cohesion: A Computational Study of Palestinian Refugee Oral Histories in Lebanon.Ghadir A. Awad, Tamara N. Rayan, Lavinia Dunagan and David Gamba.

A cultural shift in Western perceptions of Palestine. Terry Regier and Muhammad Ali Khalidi.

Detecting Inconsistencies in Narrative Elements of Cross Lingual Nakba Texts. Nada Hamarsheh, Zahia Elabour, Aya Murra and Adnan Yahya.

16:00 Keynote  (see above) 

https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/#organizers 

17:00 Closing