Nakba-NLP 2026

2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Part of the LREC-2026 Conference

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

May 11-16, 2025

https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp

We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2026, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics:

- Digitisation of oral and written narratives

- Creation and labelling of language corpora and datasets

- Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up

- Annotation tools and annotation guidelines

- Document classification, topic modelling, and information retrieval

- Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events

- Entity linking and relationship extraction

- Event detection and event argument extraction

- Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data

- Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies

- Data visualization

- Knowledge representation

- Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing

- Natural Language Generation

- Large Language Models

- Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction

- Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives


Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies, The Palestinian Museum, Nakba-Archive, POHA, Alhaq, ICHR as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph.


Important Dates:

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All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).

15 Jan 2026 – Shared-task training set release
15 Feb 2026 – Shared-task blind test release
1 Mar 2026 – Shared-task system submissions
10 Mar 2026 – Shared-task results
20 Mar 2026 – Paper submission deadline
15 Apr 2026 – Acceptance notifications
30 Apr 2026 – Camera-ready deadline
11–16 May 2026 – LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC)


Organizing Committee:

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* Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University

* Mo El-Haj, VinUniversity

* Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University

* Khalil Simaan, University of Amsterdam

* Paul Rayson, Lancaster University

* Serin Atiani, Princess Sumaya University

* Shadi Abudalfa, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

* Amal Haddad, University of Granada