The 7th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT7)
Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 11 May 2026
Co-located with LREC 2026.

OSACT7 invites submissions on open-source Arabic language resources and processing tools. The workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and students working in computational linguistics, NLP, and IR, with a strong emphasis on accessibility, reproducibility, and support for underrepresented Arabic varieties.

The workshop will feature five shared tasks, alongside regular paper submissions, addressing timely challenges in Arabic NLP. We particularly welcome work on Arabic corpora, language models, and processing technologies, including Large Language Models and Generative AI, dialectal Arabic, and practical tools for real-world applications.

Topics include:

Arabic language resources and annotated corpora
Pre-trained & fine-tuned Arabic language models
Dialect identification and translation
Sentiment analysis, text classification, and fake news detection
Core Arabic NLP tasks and processing tools
Crowdsourcing, annotation, & resource creation

Submission types (excluding references):

Long papers (up to 8 pages),
Short papers (up to 4 pages,)
Shared task system papers (up to 4 pages).

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 18 February 2026
Notification: 12 March 2026
Camera-ready: 30 March 2026
Workshop: 11 May 2026


Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec2026/OSACT7/

Best wishes,
OSACT7 Organizing Committee:
-Hend Al-Khalifa
-Mo El-Haj
-Saad Ezzini