Dear colleagues,
The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2026)
Co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2026). (Hybrid Mode).
Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/
Submission types
ArabicNLP 2026 accepts long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), and demo papers (up to 4 pages). Accepted papers will be allowed one additional page in their final version to help authors address the reviewers’ comments. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work.
Theme: Towards Inclusive Arabic NLP
Submissions may include work-in-progress or completed research focusing on Arabic in all its forms—including Modern Standard, Classical, and dialectal varieties (e.g., Maghrebi, Levantine, Egyptian, Gulf), as well as code-switched or mixed-language text. We particularly encourage work addressing under-resourced or historically overlooked varieties, recognizing that truly inclusive NLP must extend beyond high-resource, standardized forms to reflect the language's actual diversity. We also welcome research on related Semitic (e.g., Hebrew, Amharic) or Arabic-script languages (e.g., Persian, Urdu) that share computational challenges, alongside descriptions of commercial or deployed systems provided there is a willingness to share technical details. Finally, we encourage work that leverages Arabic resources or methodologies to benefit other languages, broadening the community's impact across related writing systems and language families.
Topics of interest
We welcome submissions on topics including (but not limited to):
Core Arabic NLP: segmentation/tokenization, morphological & morphosyntactic analysis/disambiguation, POS tagging, NER, parsing, SRL, text classification (e.g., sentiment, offensiveness/hate speech), etc.
Machine learning for Arabic: modeling and systems for generative/discriminative approaches, domain adaptation, transfer learning, multilingual/multidialectal learning, evaluation methodology.
Arabic Large Language Models: pretraining, instruction tuning, alignment, benchmarking, robustness, fairness, culturally-grounded evaluation.
Applications: MT, summarization, dialogue, creative generation/analysis, ASR/TTS, retrieval, OCR, educational and assistive technologies, social media analytics.
Resources & infrastructure: corpora, lexicons/dictionaries, annotation guidelines, benchmarks, tools supporting Arabic NLP research and deployment.
Ethics & Trust: bias, safety, misinformation, and the responsible development of Arabic NLP.
Shared tasks
ArabicNLP typically hosts shared tasks to engage the community; a separate Call for Shared Task Proposals will be issued soon, and selected tasks will run as part of the event.
Submission Instructions
Conference Paper Submission URL: TBA
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (Latex). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines, general to "*ACL" conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.
Important Dates
March 15, 2026: First call for workshop papers
April 15, 2026: Second call for workshop papers
May 15, 2026: Third call for papers
June 18, 2026: Abstract submission for conference papers due date
June 25, 2026: Direct conference paper submission due date
July 16, 2026: Reviews submission deadline
July 24 - July 31, 2026: Rebuttal period
August 2, 2026: ARR commitment deadline
August 7, 2026: Metareview deadline
August 20, 2026: Notification of acceptance
September 10, 2026: Camera-ready papers due
October, 2026: ArabicNLP conference
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
More information will be posted on the ArabicNLP 2026 website: https://arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/
If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs [at] sigarab.org
We look forward to your submissions and participation.
Best regards,
The ArabicNLP 2026 Organizing Committee