OSACT7: 1st Call for Papers

[El-Haj, Mo]

The 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7)

Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 11 May 2026

Co-located with LREC 2026.

OSACT7 invites submissions on open-source Arabic language resources and processing tools. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and students working in computational linguistics, NLP, and IR, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, reproducibility, and support for underrepresented Arabic varieties.

The workshop will feature five shared tasks, alongside regular paper submissions, addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP. We particularly welcome work on Arabic corpora, language models, and processing technologies, including Large Language Models and Generative AI, dialectal Arabic, and practical tools for real-world applications.

Topics include:

• Arabic language resources and annotated corpora
• Pre-trained & fine-tuned Arabic language models
• Dialect identification and translation
• Sentiment analysis, text classification, and fake news detection
• Core Arabic NLP tasks and processing tools
• Crowdsourcing, annotation, & resource creation

Submission types (excluding references):

• Long papers (up to 8 pages), 
• Short papers (up to 4 pages,)
• Shared task system papers (up to 4 pages). 

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: 18 February 2026
• Notification: 12 March 2026
• Camera-ready: 30 March 2026
• Workshop: 11 May 2026

Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/OSACT7/

Best wishes,

OSACT7 Organizing Committee:

-Hend Al-Khalifa

-Mo El-Haj

-Saad Ezzini

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Dr Mo El-Haj

Director of NLP @ VinUniversity 

Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP

CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam 

SCC, Lancaster University, UK

https://elhaj.uk 

https://arabicnlp.uk

https://vinnlp.com