Call for Papers – AbjadNLP 2026

The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
Rabat, Morocco (in-person)
Co-located with EACL 2026

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL.

The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP — covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties — while also supporting work on related languages such as Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Sindhi, Uyghur, and African Ajami languages (e.g. Hausa, Fula, Wolofal, Swahili, Kanuri, Mandingo, and Tamazight).

We welcome contributions on all NLP topics, including morphological analysis, parsing, translation, LLM adaptation, resources and corpora, code-switching, sociolinguistic analysis, and low-resource methods.

Submission Deadlines:
Direct submissions: 8 January 2026
ARR submissions: 10 January 2026
Notification: 24 January 2026
Camera-ready: 3 February 2026
Workshop: 24–29 March 2026 (TBC)

AbjadNLP 2026 follows the EACL 2026 submission and formatting guidelines. Templates are available at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files.

General Chair: Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity & Lancaster University)
More information: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/