36.3151, Confs: 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (Morocco)

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Subject: 36.3151, Confs: 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (Morocco)

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Date: 17-Oct-2025
From: Amal Haddad Haddad [amalhaddad at ugr.es]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script


2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
Short Title: AbjadNLP 2026

Date: 24-Mar-2026 - 29-Mar-2026
Location: Rabat, Morocco
Meeting URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 08-Jan-2026

AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its
dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa
and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026
edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL.
The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP — covering
Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties —
while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu,
Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and
African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri,
Mandingo, and Tamazight).
We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological
analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora,
code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods.
Submission Deadlines:
Direct submissions: 8 January 2026
ARR submissions: 10 January 2026
Notification: 24 January 2026
Camera-ready: 3 February 2026
Workshop: 24–29 March 2026 (TBC)
AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting
guidelines. Templates are available at
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files.
General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University)
More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/



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