Shared Tasks

We are happy to announce that we will be hosting 15 shared tasks

Shared Task 1: NADI-2026: Robust and Mixed-Dialect Speech Shared Task

• Contact Person: Peter Sullivan (prsull@student.ubc.ca), Bashar Talafha (bashartalafha@gmail.com) 

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://nadi.dlnlp.ai/2026/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 2: BAREC-ST-2026: The Second Shared Task on Arabic Readability Assessment

• Contact Person: Khalid N. Elmadani (barec26.organizers@camel-lab.com)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://barec.camel-la b.com/sharedtask2026

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 3: AraGenre: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task

• Contact Person: Mo El-Haj (m.el-haj@lancaster.ac.uk)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aragenre/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 4: ArGuard: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts

• Contact Person: Firoj Alam (firojalam@gmail.com)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://github.com/araieval/ArGuard-2026

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 5: StanceEval-2026: Stance Detection in Arabic Language

• Contact Person: Nuha Albadi (Nuha.badi@kfupm.edu.sa)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://stanceeval.github.io/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 6: Ayn 2026: Cultural Grounding in Arabic Multimodal Generation and Understanding

• Contact Person: Firoj Alam (firojalam@gmail.com)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: TBD

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 7: AlexandriaX-2026: Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic MT and MT Evaluation

• Contact Person: Abdellah El Mekki (abdellah.elmekki@ubc.ca)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://alexandriax.dlnlp.ai/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 8: Arabic Sentence Segmentation Shared Task

• Contact Person: Mohammed ElKholy (mohammed.elkholy@mbzuai.ac.ae)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://www.araseg.aramlab.ai/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 9: IslamicEval 2026: Fine-Grained Hallucination Detection in Arabic Islamic Content

• Contact Person: Walid Magdy (wmagdy@inf.ed.ac.uk), Rahaf Alharbi (R.A.A.Alharbi-3@sms.ed.ac.uk)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://sites.google.com/view/islamiceval2026/home

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 10: HalluScoring: LLMs Hallucination Detection in Arabic Question Answering

• Contact Person: Aisha Alansari (aisha.ansari@kfupm.edu.sa)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://halluscoring.github.io/HalluScoring-2026

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 11: KnowledgeGraphEval 2026: A Shared Task on Arabic Knowledge Graph Construction and Domain Adaptation

• Contact Person: Alaa Aljabari (aaljabari@birzeit.com)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://sina.birzeit.edu/knowledgegraph_sharedtask2026

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 12: Cross-Genre Arabic Argument Mining

• Contact Person: Khalid Al-Khatib (khalid.alkhatib@rug.nl)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: TBD

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 13: DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task

• Contact Person: Saad Ezzini (saad.ezzini@kfupm.edu.sa)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://ezzini.github.io/DialectSentEval2026/

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 14: ArA-DF 2026: A Shared Task on Arabic Speech Deepfake Detection

• Contact Person: Vasista Sai Lodagala (vasista.lodagala@gmail.com)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: TBD

• System paper submission link: TBD

Shared Task 15: AISA-ArabicFC: Arabic Function Calling for Agentic AI Systems

• Contact Person: Omer Nacar (o.najar@tuwaiq.edu.sa)

• For more information, please visit the shared task website: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TuwaiqAcademy/AISA-ArabicFC-Shared-Task

• System paper submission link: TBD

Important Dates

• September 1, 2026: Shared task papers due date

• August 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance

• September 10, 2026: Camera-ready papers due

• October 24–29, 2026: ArabicNLP conference

All dates are 11:59 PM UTC-12h ("Anywhere on Earth")

For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chair: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair@sigarab.org