Call for Papers: Nakba-NLP workshop (at LREC-2026 Conference)

[Mustafa Jarrar]

Nakba-NLP 2026

2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Part of the LREC-2026 Conference

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

May 11-16, 2025

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

 

إغناء النكبة والرواية الفلسطينية بتقنيات معالجة اللغة والذكاء الاصطناعي

( ... مدونات، صور، فيديو، اخبار، خطاب، تحيز، شبكات تواصل اجتماعي، نماذج لغوية، تصنيف، احداث)

We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics:

 - Digitisation of oral and written narratives

 - Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets

 - Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up

 - Annotation tools and annotation guidelines

 - Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval

 - Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events

 - Entity linking and relationship extraction

 - Event detection and event argument extraction

 - Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data

 - Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies

 - Data visualization

 - Knowledge representation

 - Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing

 - Natural Language Generation

 - Large Language Models

 - Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction

 - Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives

Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies, The Palestinian Museum, Nakba-Archive, POHA, Alhaq, ICHR as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph.

Important Dates: 

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All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).

20 Mar 2026 – Paper submission deadline

15 Apr 2026 – Acceptance notifications

30 Apr 2026 – Camera-ready deadline

Organizing Committee:

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*  Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University

*  Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity

*  Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University

*  Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam

*  Paul Rayson, Lancaster University

*   Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University

*   Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

*  Amal Haddad, University of Granada