01
Developing an Informal-Formal Persian Corpus: Highlighting the Differences between Two Writing Styles
Vahide Tajalli, Mehrnoush Shamsfard and Fateme Kalantari
AbjadNLP Archive · First Edition
AbjadNLP 2025The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
The inaugural AbjadNLP workshop brought together researchers working on Arabic, Perso-Arabic and Ajami languages, creating a dedicated forum for language technology across one of the world's most widely used script traditions.
1stedition of AbjadNLP
15accepted papers listed
~1Bspeakers across the wider language scope
43+Ajami languages highlighted in the original call
Why AbjadNLP
A dedicated home for Arabic-script language technology
AbjadNLP was established to advance Natural Language Processing for languages that use Arabic-derived writing systems. The first edition deliberately reached beyond Arabic to include Perso-Arabic and Ajami traditions, creating a shared research space for languages that face related challenges in orthography, digital resources, representation and tooling.
The workshop focused on the linguistic structures, resources and technical challenges of these languages, while bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, writing systems and language-resource communities. It also highlighted links with the Masakhane NLP community, COMSATS and Lancaster University's UCREL NLP Group.
The name AbjadNLP is used as an inclusive umbrella. The workshop has always recognised that the wider scope includes languages using Arabic and Perso-Arabic alphabets, as well as Ajami writing traditions, and that not every language within this community is technically written using an abjad.
العربية
Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic, dialects, historical language varieties and Arabic NLP.
فارسی · اردو
Perso-Arabic
Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Sindhi, Uyghur and related writing traditions.
عجمي
Ajami
African languages written using Arabic-derived scripts, including Hausa, Fulfulde, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo and Tamazight.
Research scope
Topics represented by the first edition
The original call combined core NLP, writing-system technology, resources and culturally grounded language technology.
Core NLP
Morphology, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entities, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment and language modelling.
Applications
Machine translation, speech recognition and synthesis, OCR, pedagogy, assistive technologies and social media analysis.
Language Resources
Dictionaries, annotated datasets, corpora, BLARK descriptions and open-access resources.
Writing Systems
Orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, Unicode, text input and spell-checking.
Transliteration & Processing
Text processing across Arabic-derived scripts, transliteration and morphology-aware approaches.
Culture & Sociolinguistics
Cultural and sociolinguistic considerations for inclusive NLP applications and language preservation.
Published record
Accepted papers
02
DadmaTools V2: an Adapter-Based Natural Language Processing Toolkit for the Persian Language
Sadegh Jafari, Farhan Farsi, Navid Ebrahimi, Mohamad Bagher Sajadi and Sauleh Eetemadi
03
Towards Unified Processing of Perso-Arabic Scripts for ASR
Srihari Bandarupalli, Bhavana Akkiraju, Sri Charan Devarakonda, Harinie Sivaramasethu, Vamshiraghusimha Narasinga and Anil Vuppala
04
Evaluating Large Language Models on Health-Related Claims Across Arabic Dialects
Abdulsalam Obaid Alharbi, Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alalawi, Usman Naseem, Shoaib Jameel, Salil Kanhere and Imran Razzak
05
Can LLMs Verify Arabic Claims? Evaluating the Arabic Fact-Checking Abilities of Multilingual LLMs
Ayushman Gupta, Aryan Singhal, Thomas Law, Veekshith Rao, Evan Duan and Ryan Luo Li
06
Can LLMs Translate Cultural Nuance in Dialects? A Case Study on Lebanese Arabic
Silvana Yakhni and Ali Chehab
07
Boosting Sentiment Analysis in Persian through a GAN-Based Synthetic Data Augmentation Method
Masoumeh Mohammadi, Mohammad Ruhul Amin and Shadi Tavakoli
08
In-Depth Analysis of Arabic-Origin Words in the Turkish Morpholex
Mounes Zaval, Abdullah İhsanoğlu, Asım Ersoy and Olcay Taner Yıldız
09
A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic
Reham Marzouk, Sondos Krouna and Nizar Habash
10
Evaluation of Large Language Models on Arabic Punctuation Prediction
Asma Ali Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Hawra Aljasim, Waad Alshammari, Rawan Al-Matham, Omar Elnashar, Mohamed Amin and Abdulrahman AlOsaimy
11
Evaluating RAG Pipelines for Arabic Lexical Information Retrieval: A Comparative Study of Embedding and Generation Models
Raghad Al-Rasheed, Abdullah Al Muaddi, Hawra Aljasim, Rawan Al-Matham, Muneera Alhoshan, Asma Al Wazrah and Abdulrahman AlOsaimy
12
Automated Generation of Arabic Verb Conjugations with Multilingual Urdu Translation: An NLP Approach
Haq Nawaz, Manal Elobaid, Ali Al-Laith and Saif Ullah
13
Psychological Health Chatbot, Detecting and Assisting Patients in their Path to Recovery
Sadegh Jafari, Mohammad Erfan Zare, Amireza Vishte, Mirzae Melike, Zahra Amiri, Sima Mohammadparast and Sauleh Eetemadi
14
MultiProp Framework: Ensemble Models for Enhanced Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection in Social Media and News using Data Augmentation, Text Segmentation, and Meta-Learning
Farizeh Aldabbas, Shaina Ashraf, Rafet Sifa and Lucie Flek
15
The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Wolofal in the Context of NLP
Ngoc Tan Le, Ali Mijiyawa, Abdoulahat Leye and Fatiha Sadat
People behind the first edition
Organising committee
The inaugural workshop was organised by an international team spanning NLP, linguistics, writing systems and low-resource language research.
Programme Committee
- Abdoulaye Diallo · Fula & Wolofal · Independent Researcher
- Ahmed Abdelali · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · Humain, Saudi Arabia
- Ahmed AbuRa’ed · Arabic · UBC, Canada
- Alp Oktem · Tigrinya and Kanuri · Translators without Borders
- Antonio Moreno Sandoval · Low-Resourced Languages · UAM, Spain
- Azizud Din · Pashto · University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
- Behnam Sabeti · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
- Chenggang Mi · Uyghur · Xinjiang Technical Institute, China
- Clement Oyeleke · Yoruba · University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Daniel Whitenack · Kimbundu, Fulfulde, Pular · SIL International, USA
- Derguene Mbaye · Wolofal · Baamtu, Senegal
- Djamel Mostefa · Pashto · ELDA, France
- Doaa Samy · Arabic · Cairo University, Egypt & LLI-UAM, Spain
- Elias W BA · Fula and Wolofal · Baamtu, Senegal
- Eric Atwell · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · Leeds University, UK
- Frederick Apina · Swahili · Parrot.AI, Tanzania
- George Giannakopoulos · Multilingual NLP · SKEL Lab – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
- Haithem Afli · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · Dublin City University, Ireland
- Hazem Hajj · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Houda Anoun · Arabic NLP · Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
- Nassera Habbat · Arabic NLP · Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
- Houda Bouamor · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · CMU, Qatar
- Ignatius Ezeani · Igbo, African Languages NLP · Lancaster University, UK
- Imed Zitouni · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · Microsoft Research, USA
- Karim Bouzoubaa · Arabic/Multilingual NLP · Mohamed V University, Morocco
- Mariam Masoud · Kurdish · National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
- Lei Wang · Uyghur · Xinjiang Technical Institute, China
- Muhammad Sharjeel · Urdu · COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
- Omid Momenzadeh · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
- Preni Golazizian · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
- Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab · Urdu · COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
- Reza Fahmi · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
- Samuel Olanrewaju · Yoruba, Yagba and Basa · University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Scott Piao · Multilingual and Low-Resourced Languages · Lancaster University, UK
- Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
- Shervin Malmasi · Sorani Kurdish · Macquarie University, Australia
- Sina Ahmadi · Kurdish · University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Sokhar Samb · Wolofal · ML & NLP, Senegal
- Tonghai Jiang · Uyghur · Xinjiang Technical Institute, China
- Waziri Shebogholo · Swahili · Parrot.AI, Tanzania
- Wole Akin · IsiXhosa, Yorùbá, Hausa and Igbo · University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Xi Zhou · Uyghur · Xinjiang Technical Institute, China
- Yating Yang · Uyghur · Xinjiang Technical Institute, China
- Zahra Majdabadi · Persian · Miras Technologies International, Iran
Workshop series
From the first edition to a continuing community
AbjadNLP 2025 established the workshop series and its broad community focus. Later editions continue the same mission while expanding the programme, shared tasks and participation across Arabic-script language communities.
2025 · Abu Dhabi
1st AbjadNLP
Inaugural edition, co-located with COLING 2025.
2026 · Rabat
2nd AbjadNLP
Second edition at EACL 2026.
2027 · Athens
3rd AbjadNLP
Current edition at EACL 2027.