01
Poster
ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and Platform
Salem Lahlou
AbjadNLP Archive · Second Edition
AbjadNLP 2026The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
A full-day international workshop advancing language technology for Arabic, Perso-Arabic and Ajami languages, bringing together research on low-resource NLP, writing systems, multilingual modelling and community-driven language technology.
71accepted entries listed in the archive
4shared tasks
21oral presentations
16poster presentations
About the second edition
A wider home for NLP across Arabic-derived scripts
AbjadNLP 2026 focused on advancing NLP for Arabic and the wider family of languages written in Arabic-derived scripts. Following the inaugural 2025 edition at COLING in Abu Dhabi, the workshop returned in Rabat as part of SIGARAB, the ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP.
The workshop was designed around a deliberately broad linguistic scope. It connected Arabic NLP with Perso-Arabic and Ajami traditions, and placed low-resource language technology, linguistic diversity, open resources and cross-community collaboration at the centre of the programme.
The organisers also highlighted close links with the Masakhane community and a wider commitment to inclusive, community-driven NLP across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
العربية
Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic and dialectal varieties, including research on morphology, language modelling, generation and evaluation.
فارسی · اردو
Perso-Arabic
Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur and other Arabic-derived writing traditions.
عجمي
Ajami
Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, Tamazight and other African languages written with Arabic-derived scripts.
Research scope
Topics represented by AbjadNLP
The 2026 workshop welcomed research across core NLP, applications, resource creation, sociolinguistics and interdisciplinary work for Arabic-script languages.
Core NLP
Morphology, tokenisation, tagging, parsing, named entities, sentiment and language modelling, including LLMs for low-resource settings.
Applications
Machine translation, speech technologies, OCR and handwriting recognition, question answering, dialogue systems and social media analysis.
Language Resources
Corpora, lexicons, orthography documentation, annotation resources and tools for low-resource or marginalised languages.
Culture & Sociolinguistics
Code-switching, dialects, transliteration, orthographic variation and language preservation.
Responsible & Inclusive NLP
Ethics, fairness, evaluation and research practices that better serve under-represented language communities.
Interdisciplinary NLP
Language technologies for education, health, finance, legal applications and cultural heritage.
Invited talk
Keynote speaker
VC
Dr Violetta Laura Cavalli-Sforza
Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Computer Science faculty member at Al Akhawayn University whose work has included machine translation, language learning through reading, readability and Arabic language technology.
Orthographic Dreams and Woes for Moroccan Arabic (Darija)
The keynote examined the lack of a single standard writing convention for Moroccan Arabic, previous attempts to systematise Darija orthography, and the practical choices involved in building language-learning and computational resources for a highly variable written dialect.
Speaker profile ↗Published research
Accepted papers and shared-task papers
02
Oral
Rethinking Polarity Detection: When BPE Fails Across Scripts
Manodyna K H, Luc De Nardi
03
Oral
Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment Prediction
Rabab Alkhalifa
04
Oral
Optimizer Choice and Calibration for QARiB on Arabic-Script Social Media Offensive Language Detection
Auda Elshokry, Mohammed Alhanjouri
05
Poster
Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry
Mo El-Haj
06
Oral
LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models
Ahmed Khamis, Hesham Ali Ahmed
07
Shared task
HCMUS_TheFangs at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
Duy Minh Dao Sy, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Dinh Ha Duong, Nguyen Chi Tran, Phu Quy Nguyen Lam, Hoa Pham Phu
08
Oral
KazakhOCR: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Models in Low-Resource Kazakh Script OCR
Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran
09
Poster
Seeing Words Differently: Visual Embeddings for Robust English-Arabic Machine Translation
Mahdi Alshaikh Saleh, Irfan Ahmad
10
Oral
Character-Level Transformer for Tajik–Persian Transliteration with a Parallel Lexical Corpus
Arabov Mullosharaf Kurbonovich
11
Poster
Arabic Dialect Translation with Small LLMs: Enhancing through Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning
Sohaila Abdulsattar, Keith Ross
12
Shared task
MedArabs at AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification via Data- and Algorithm-Level Fusion
Amrita Singh
13
Shared task
GATech at AbjadGenEval: Multilingual Embeddings for Arabic Machine-Generated Text Classification
Ahmed Khamis
14
Oral
Orthographic Robustness of Persian Named Entity Recognition Models
Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier
15
Shared task
ArabicMedicalBERT-QA-82 at AbjadMed: Fighting Class Imbalance in Arabic Medical Text Classification
Gleb Shanshin
16
Shared task
KvochurHegel at AbjadMed: Combining LDAM Loss and Adversarial Training for Arabic Medical Question-Answer Classification
Minh-Hoang Le
17
Shared task
baellouf at AbjadMed: Efficient Fine-tuning with All-Linear LoRA for Arabic Medical QA Classification
Abdallah Khallouf
18
Shared task
Supachoke at AbjadMed: Enhancing Arabic Medical Text Classification Using Fine-Tuned AraBERT
Thanh Phu Nguyen, Tuan Thai Huy Nguyen Cu, Son Thai Pham, Tri Duy Ho Nguyen
19
Shared task
REIGNITE at AbjadMed: Imbalance-Aware Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Arabic Transformers for Arabic Medical Text Classification Task
Nahid Montasir Rifat, Foyez Ahmed Dewan
20
Shared task
Tashkees-AI at AbjadMed 2026: Flat vs. Hierarchical Classification for Fine-Grained Arabic Medical QA
Fatimah Mohamed Emad Eldin
21
Shared task
MetaSwarm at AbjadMed: Forensic Optimization and Class-Balanced Discovery for Medical Diglossia in Abjad Scripts
Rahul Jaisy
22
Poster
QurSci-Onto: A Hierarchical Ontology and Dataset for Scientific Exegesis in the Quran
Ibad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Junaid Hussain, Sadam Al-Azani
23
Oral
AjamiMorph: Zero-Annotation Morphological Discovery for Hausa Ajami via Multi-Method Consensus
Soumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Prithwish Ghosh, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal
24
Oral
Morphological Feature Extraction for Fine-Grained Sorani Kurdish Dialect Identification: A Hybrid Transformer-Linguistic Approach
Soumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Subham Majumdar, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal
25
Shared task
Olga Snissarenko at AbjadMed: Arabic Clinical Text Classification with AraBERT: Results from the AbjadMed Shared Task
Olga Snissarenko
26
Oral
From Classical to Contemporary: Evolutionary Analysis & Classification of Urdu Poetry
Noor Fatima, Hasan Faraz Khan, Irfan Ahmad
27
Poster
Alkhalil Corpus: An Open-Source Thematic and Lemmatized Corpus for Modern Standard Arabic
Samir Belayachi, Azzeddine Mazroui
28
Oral
Enhancing Urdu Sentiment Classification through Instruction-Tuned LLMs and Cross-Lingual Transfer
Hasan Faraz Khan, Noor Fatima, Irfan Ahmad
29
Poster
Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents
Nawal Haidar, Ahmad Kashmar, Fadi Zaraket
30
Oral
Improving on State-of-the-Art Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching Text
Samaher Alghamdi, Paul Rayson, Reem Alotibi
31
Poster
OMAN-SPEECH: A Multi-Layer Annotated Speech Corpus for Omani Arabic Dialects
Rayyan S. Al Khadhuri, Firas Al Mahrouqi, Salim Al Mandhari, Amir Azad Al-Kathiri, Omar Said Alshahri, Ghassab Mansoor Alsaqr, Badri Abdulhakim Mudhsh, Tarek Fatnassi
32
Poster
Hala Technical Report Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at Scale
Hasan Abed Al, Kader Hammoud, Mohamad Bilal Zbib, Bernard Ghanem
33
Poster
Arabic Citation Parsing using Part of Speech and Named Entity Recognition
Youssef Karout, Hadi Hammoud, Fadi Zaraket
34
Poster
DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Ahmed Mustafa Younes
35
Poster
A Corpus-Based Investigation of Contemporary Arabic Dialects Using the SADA Corpus
Ghada Alfattni
36
Oral
HACS-TL: Cross-Script Transfer Learning for Hausa Ajami Hate Speech Detection Using Transformer-Based Architecture
Abdulkadir Shehu Bichi, Muqaddar Ali, Prashant Sharma, Ismail Dauda Abubakar
37
Oral
Code-Switching as a Safety Failure Mode in Large Language Models: An Empirical Study of Roman Urdu across English, Mixed, and Transliteration-Only Inputs
Waleed Jamil, Saima Rafi
38
Oral
QAMAR: A New Fully Verified and Accurate Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis Resource.
Sara Faqihi, Karim Bouzoubaa, Rachida Tajmout, Driss Namly
39
Oral
AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for Arabic
Omar elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai, Muhammed Ragab, Khloud Al Jallad, Mona Abdelazim
40
Oral
Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Self-Supervised Models for Arabic Speech Recognition
Wafa Mohammed Alshehri, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Ismail Amro
41
Oral
Current state of LLMs for Arabic dialectal machine translation
Josef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ondřej Bojar
42
Poster
A Hybrid Confidence-Aware Framework for Arabic Toxicity Detection in Social Media
Fawzia Zaal Alanazi, Asma Mohammed Alamri, Arwa Bin Saleh, Abdullah I. Alharbi
43
Poster
Arabic-Adapted One-Step Speech-to-Diacritized ASR: Evaluation and Error Analysis
Osamah A. I. Abduljalil, Dalal Ali, Razan A. Bajaman, Abdullah I. Alharbi
44
Shared task
GATech at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Multilingual Embeddings for Arabic Machine-Generated Text Classification
Ahmed Khamis
45
Oral
AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models
Mohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna, Nadine Rizk, Fatima Karnib, Sina Moukaled, Bernard Ghanem
46
Shared task
REGLAT at AbjadMed: Handling Imbalanced Arabic Medical Text Classification via Hierarchical KNN-MLP Architecture
Ahmed Megahed Fetouh, Mohammed Rahmath, Omer Dawood, Mariam Labib, Nsrin Ashraf, Hamada Nayel
47
Oral
Murabaa: A comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic Morphology
Karim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad, Rachida Tajmout, Jamal Ezzouaine, Hakima Khamar
48
Oral
U-MIRAGE: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Urdu Medical QA
Ali Faheem, Faizad Ullah, Muhammad Hammad, Ahmed Hassan, Muhammad Sohaib Ayub, Asim Karim
49
Shared task
Sujith Kanakkassery at AbjadMed: Imbalance-Aware Transformer Fine-tuning for Arabic Medical Text Classification
Sujith Kanakkassery
50
Poster
A Knowledge Graph Based Diagnostic Framework for Analyzing Hallucinations in Arabic Machine Reading Comprehension
Najwa Abdullah AlGhamdi, Sadam Al-Azani, Kwabena Nuamah, Alan Bundy
51
Poster
From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health Monitoring
Wajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy, Mabrouka Bessghaier
52
Shared task
HCMUS_TheFangs at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Weighted Layer Pooling with Attention Fusion for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
Duy Minh Dao Sy, Nguyen Chi Tran, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Pham Phu Hoa, Nguyen Dinh Ha Duong
53
Shared task
HCMUS_The Fangs at AbjadStyleTransfer Shared Task: Learning to Query Style, Contrastive Representations for Zero-Shot Arabic Authorship Style Transfer
Duy Minh Dao Sy, Trung Kiet Huynh, Nguyen Chi Tran, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Pham Phu Hoa, Nguyen Dinh Ha Duong
54
Shared task
U-RoCX: An xLSTM based Approach to AI-Generated Urdu Text Detection
Rabee Adel Al-Qasem
55
Shared task
HCMUS_PrisonDilemma at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: Less is More with Base Models
Trung Kiet Huynh, Duy Minh Dao Sy, Nguyen Chi Tran, Pham Phu Hoa, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy, Truong Bao Tran
56
Shared task
XLMR-Urdu at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: A Data-Centric Transformer-Based Approach for AI-Generated Urdu Text Detection
Mohannad Mohammad Hendi
57
Shared task
LoRAD: Low-Resource AI-Generated Text Detection with XLM-RoBERTa
Ali Zain
58
Shared task
A Stylometric and Statistical Pipeline for Urdu AI-Generated Text Classification
Saeed A. Anabtawi
59
Shared task
QalamID at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: Morphology Matters, A Hybrid Ensemble for Arabic Authorship Attribution
Youssef Zaghloul
60
Shared task
Kashif-AI at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: A Transformer-based Approach for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
Fatimah Mohamed Emad Eldin
61
Shared task
NileUn at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Contrastive Learning with Stacking Ensemble for Efficient Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
Mohamed Hussein Mohamed, Shrouk Shalaby, Nesreen Mohamed
62
Shared task
REGLAT at AbjadGenEval: Multi-Model Ensemble Approach for Arabic AI-Generated Text Detection
Mariam Labib Francies, Nsrin Ashraf, Ahmed Megahed Fetouh, Hamada Nayel
63
Shared task
AyahVerse at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: Monolingual Precision and Cross-Lingual Analysis in Perso-Arabic AI Detection
Fizza Nawaz, Ibad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Uswa Abid, Junaid Hussain
64
Shared task
AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification at AbjadNLP 2026
Pranav Gupta, Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan, Imed Zitouni, Mo El-Haj
65
Shared task
Uslub at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Models for Authorship Attribution in Arabic and Urdu
Shahad Alsuhaibani, Mohamed Alkaoud
66
Shared task
Arabic Author Attribution Using Transformer-Based Models: Insights from the AbjadAuthorID Shared Task
Ghader Kurdi
67
Shared task
R-R at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: A Fine-Tuned Approach for Kurdish Authorship Identification
Rania Azad M. San Ahmed, Rebwar M. Nabi
68
Shared task
AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026
Saad Ezzini, Irfan Ahmad, Salmane Chafik, Shadi Abudalfa, Mo El-Haj, Ahmed Abdelali, Mustafa Jarrar, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Farah Adeeba
69
Shared task
AbjadAuthorID: Authorship Identification for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026
Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali, Mustafa Jarrar, Mo El-Haj, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Farah Adeeba, Sina Ahmadi
70
Shared task
AbjadStyleTransfer: Authorship Style Transfer for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026
Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali, Mustafa Jarrar, Mo El-Haj, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Farah Adeeba
Peer review
Programme committee
The programme committee reflects the workshop's international and multilingual scope, with expertise spanning Arabic, multilingual NLP, low-resource language technology and related fields.
View the 2026 programme committee (45 members listed)
- Abdelbasset Djamai, Datategy & NAMAA Community, Algeria
- Abderrahim El Yessefi, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tangier (FSTT), Morocco
- Abdullah I. Alharbi, King Salman Global Academy for Arabic, Saudi Arabia
- Ahmed Abdelali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
- Ali Al-Laith, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Alp Oktem, CollectivaT, Spain
- Azizud Din, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
- Balaji Nagarajan, Lowe’s United States
- Btissam Er-Rahmadi, Huawei Technologies R&D, United Kingdom
- Djamel Mostefa, SYSTRA Group, France
- Doaa Samy, Cairo University, Egypt
- Fadi Zaraket, UAB, Lebanon
- Mohamad Ballout, UAB, Lebanon
- Fatima Ez-Zahraa Bazay, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
- Haithem Afli, ADAPT Centre, Ireland
- Hessa Alawwad, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic, Saudi Arabia
- Houda Anoun, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
- Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- Imed Zitouni, Meta, United States
- Khloud Al Jallad, Syrian Society for Startups and Research (SySSR)
- Latifa Iben Nasr, University of Sfax, Tunisia
- Manish Adawadkar, Nike, United States
- Muhammad Adeel, University of Management and Technology (UMT), Pakistan
- Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
- Nadia Ghezaiel, University of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia
- Najwa Alghamdi, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Niranjan Kumar M, Lowe’s United States
- Noor Abo Mokh, MBZUAI, UAE
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- Pranav Gupta, Cisco, United States
- Passant Elchafei, Ulm University, Germany
- Rania Azad M. San Ahmed, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Iraq
- Raziullah Khan, HCL Technologies, USA
- Reham Marzouk, MBZUAI, UAE
- Saad Ezzini, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
- Sadam Al-Azani, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
- Samira Ellouze, University of Sfax, Tunisia
- Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
- Shervin Malmasi, Macquarie University, Australia
- Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Salim Al Mandhari, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- Satyam Raj, Arizona State University, United States
- Serry Sibaee, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
- Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli, MIRAS Technologies, Iran
- Yamina Leyla Moussaoui, C.R.S.T.D.L.A, Algeria
Workshop series
AbjadNLP across three editions
The Rabat workshop built on the inaugural Abu Dhabi edition and established the foundation for the third edition of AbjadNLP in Athens.
2025 · Abu Dhabi
1st AbjadNLP
Inaugural edition, co-located with COLING 2025.
2026 · Rabat
2nd AbjadNLP
Second edition, co-located with EACL 2026.
2027 · Athens
3rd AbjadNLP
Current edition, co-located with EACL 2027.