All times are in Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) — Budapest, Hungary
08:50 – 09:30 | Opening, Welcome & Sponsor Acknowledgements
09:30 – 10:30 | Keynote by Professor Mona Diab
“From NLP for Arabic to NLP Through Arabic: What Must AI Understand Before We Trust It to Act?”
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:10 | Arabic Speech, Resources and Benchmarks
Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Study
Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat and Shammur Absar Chowdhury
Towards Speech ALDi: Predicting the Arabic Level of Dialectness Directly from Speech
Wageeh Khadawardi, Amr Keleg and Walid Magdy
MAQAM: A Richly Annotated Corpus for Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation
Mostafa Saeed, Mohammad Amjad, Mahmoud Kassem, Rawan Bondok, Mayar Nassar, Adel Mahmoud Wizani, Salman Elgamal, Mahmoud Reda and Nizar Habash
KASHAF: A Hierarchical Resource and Pipeline for Arabic Interpretable Semantic Textual Similarity
Fahad AlGhamdi, Abdelati Hawwari, Abdulrahman Alosaimy, Rawan Nasser Almatham and Asma Al Wazrah
12:10 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:08 | Dialects, Machine Translation and Content Moderation
Some Dialects are More Equal than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs
Mai Mohamed Eida, Ryan Dolan, Paul de Nijs and Jonathan Dunn
SAFIR: A Sub-Dialectal Benchmark for Saudi Arabic–English Machine Translation
Nour Qandos, Omer Nacar, Aya Hamod, Samar Ahmad, Rahaf Saeed Al Hallay and Ahmad Al Rabghi
From Subwords to Pixels: Evaluating Text Representations for Arabic Machine Translation
Abdelrahman Shaheen, Mohamed Abbas, Tereza Truckova, Yova Kementchedjhieva and Bashar Alhafni
AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Hate Detection in Arabic Memes
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Wajdi Zaghouani and Firoj Alam
15:11 – 15:25 | Shared Task Highlights I: 7 Shared Tasks, 2 Minutes Each
15:11 – 15:13 | NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf, Fethi Bougares, Haroun Elleuch, Chiyu Zhang, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Youssef Mohamed, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Hamzah Luqman, Nizar Habash and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
15:13 – 15:15 | ArA-DF 2026: Findings of the First Shared Task on Arabic Speech Deepfake Detection
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Yassine El Kheir, Sara Althubaiti, Pedro Jose Moreno Mengibar and Ahmed Ali
15:15 – 15:17 | DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task
Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Maram Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Hind Saleh Alatawi, Mo El-Haj, Ahmed Abdelali, Osamah Alnahari and Salima Lamsiyah
15:17 – 15:19 | StanceEval 2026: The Second Stance Detection Shared Task
Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman, Asma Z. Yamani, Maram Kurdi, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Ashraf, Maged S. Al-shaibani and Nora Alturayeif
15:19 – 15:21 | ImageEval 2026: Culturally Grounded Arabic Multimodal Evaluation
Samir Abdaljalil, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Ahlam Bashiti, Farina Amir, Md Arid Hasan, Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Zien Sheikh Ali, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban, Mustafa Jarrar, Shammur Absar Chowdhury and Firoj Alam
15:21 – 15:23 | ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts
Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Hamdy Mubarak, George Mikros, Abul Hasnat and Wajdi Zaghouani
15:23 – 15:25 | AraGenre 2026: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task
Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Mustafa Jarrar, Nguyen Minh Chi and Quan Minh Nguyen
15:30 – 16:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Session 1
Main conference and shared task posters
16:30 – 17:20 | Panel 1: Inclusive Arabic NLP
17:20 – 17:30 | Awards
Thursday, October 29, 2026
All times are in Central European Time (CET, UTC+1) — Budapest, Hungary
08:50 – 09:00 | Opening
09:00 – 09:30 | Fireside Chat
09:30 – 10:21 | Arabic for Education and Islamic Knowledge
Align-Extract-Score: Graded Relevance of Arabic Essays
Marwan Sayed, Salam Albatarni, Reem Suwaileh and Tamer Elsayed
Fine-tuning Small Language Models for Cross-Prompt Arabic Essay Scoring: A Benchmarking Study
Salam Albatarni, Fahim Dalvi, Sohaila Eltanbouly and Tamer Elsayed
What Makes a Good Fiqh Retriever? Answer Retrieval for Arabic Islamic Jurisprudence
Somaya Eltanbouly, Heba Sbahi, Samer Rashwani, Abdessalam Bouchekif, Mutaz al-Khatib, Shahd Gaben and Mohammed Ghaly
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:25 | Arabic Resources, Morphology and Syntax
Beyond Gender, Number, and Rationality: Modeling Extended Arabic Morpho-Syntactic Agreement with Aggregation
Bielasan Zaina, Salam Khalifa and Nizar Habash
BAREC-TB: A Dependency Treebank and Parsing Benchmark for Arabic Children’s Texts
Khalid N. Elmadani, Mohamed Adel, Muhammed AbuOdeh, Reem Faraj, Jamila El-Gizuli, Hanada Taha and Nizar Habash
Why LLM Aggregation Falls Short: Correlated Errors and Selection Gaps in Arabic Punctuation Restoration
Rana Alshaikh and Majedah Alrehiely
SALM: Social Arabic Language Model
Saad Mankarious and Aya Zirikly
Beyond Monolithic Libyan Arabic: A Sub-Regional Speech Corpus and Dialect Identification Benchmark
Nour A. Zohdy and Mansour Essgaer
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:08 | LLM Evaluation, Safety and Detoxification
HalluTruthQA: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Hallucination Detection, Localization, and Explanation in Arabic Question Answering
Abdessalam Bouchekif, Mohammed-En-Nadhir Zighem, Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Hichem Telli, Somaya Eltanbouly, Shahd Gaben, Heba Sbahi, Samer Rashwani, Mutaz al-Khatib, Emad Soliman Ali Mohamed, Mohammed Ghaly and Abdenour Hadid
Arabic Safety Alignment as Selective Refusal: An Empirical Study of SFT, DPO, and Guard Calibration
Mohammad Zbeeb and Ammar Mohanna
Definition-Guided Learning and Root-Stratified Evaluation for Arabic Lexical Semantics
Samar Ahmad, Abdullah I. Alharbi, Omer Nacar, Shahad Altamimi and Yahya Assiri
AraDetox: A Multi-Dialect Arabic Detoxification Dataset
Mo El-Haj
15:11 – 15:27 | Shared Task Highlights II: 8 Shared Tasks, 2 Minutes Each
15:11 – 15:13 | AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation
Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy, Saad Ezzini, Mo El-Haj, Mustafa Jarrar, Zaid Alyafeai, Bernard Ghanem and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
15:13 – 15:15 | BAREC-ST-2026: The Second Shared Task on Arabic Readability Assessment
Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha and Nizar Habash
15:15 – 15:17 | IslamicEval 2026: The Second Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content
Rahaf Alharbi, Abdulelah Alturki, Watheq Mansour, Rana Malhas, Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Mohamed Darwish, Tamer Elsayed and Walid Magdy
15:17 – 15:19 | Halluscoring 2026: The First Shared Task on LLM Hallucination Detection Answer Verification
Aisha Alansari, Abdessalam Bouchekif, Ahmed Abul Hasanaath, Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Malak Alkhorasani, Mohammed-En-Nadhir Zighem, Saad Ezzini, Hichem Telli, Hend Al-Khalifa, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Abdenour Hadid and Hamzah Luqman
15:19 – 15:21 | Arabic Sentence Segmentation Shared Task 2026
Mohammed Elkholy, Khalid N. Elmadani, Nizar Habash and Bashar Alhafni
15:21 – 15:23 | KnowledgeGraphEval 2026: The First Shared Task on Arabic Knowledge Graphs
Alaa Aljabari, Nagham Hamad, Abdellah El Mekki, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Imed Zitouni, Sanjay Chawla and Mustafa Jarrar
15:23 – 15:25 | Daleel 2026 Shared Task on Arabic Argumentative Discourse Mining
Sara Nabhani, Nahla Bassyouni, Ali Al-Zawqari, Mohammad Khader and Khalid Al Khatib
15:25 – 15:27 | AISA-ArabicFC: The First Shared Task on Arabic Function Calling for Agentic AI Systems
Omer Nacar, Wareef Alzubaidi and Mohammed Alkhalifah
15:30 – 16:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Session 2
Main conference and shared task posters
16:30 – 17:20 | Panel 2: ArabicNLP Growth
17:20 – 17:30 | Closing Remarks