*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** We are pleased to announce five exciting shared tasks <https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/shared-tasks> as part of the 1st Conference on Arabic NLP (WANLP2023 <https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/>) - co-located with EMNLP 2023 <https://2023.emnlp.org/> in Singapore.
Please refer to the tasks’ websites for more information on participation and internal deadlines. General shared tasks deadlines are at the end of this call. Shared Task 1: NADI 2023 Description: Dialect identification is the task of automatically detecting the source variety of a given text or speech segment. In addition to nuanced dialect identification at the country level, NADI 2022 offered a new subtask focused on country-level sentiment analysis. NADI 2023 continues this tradition of extending tasks beyond dialect identification. Namely, we propose a new open track subtask focused on machine translation (MT) in two directions (i) into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) from five Arabic dialects and (ii) into any of the five dialects from MSA. Organizers: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, AbdelRahim Elmadany (The University of British Columbia, Canada), Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar), and Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi). For more information, please visit the shared task’s website: <https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-gender-rewriting/> https://nadi.dlnlp.ai/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Shared Task 2: ArAIEval - Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text Description: The ArAIEval shared tasks include two tasks: (i) persuasion techniques detection, and (ii) disinformation detection. Organizers: Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Maram Hasanain, Wajdi Zaghouani, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. For more information, please visit the shared task’s website: <https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-gender-rewriting/> https://araieval.gitlab.io/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Shared Task 3: Qur'an QA 2023 Description: This is a shared task of Arabic Reading Comprehension over the Holy Qur’an, aiming to trigger state-of-the-art question-answering and reading comprehension research on a book that is sacredly held by more than 1.8 billion people across the world. The shared task entails two subtasks: (A) Passage Retrieval (PR) task, and (B) Reading Comprehension (RC) task. Organizers: Tamer Elsayed, Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour (Qatar University). For more information, please visit the shared task’s website: <https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-gender-rewriting/> https://sites.google.com/view/quran-qa-2023 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Shared Task 4: WojoodNER Description: Due to the scarcity of Arabic resources, most of the research on Arabic NER focuses on flat entities and addresses a limited number of entity types (person, organization, and location). The goal of this shared task is to alleviate this bottleneck by providing Wojood; a large and rich Arabic NER corpus. Organizers: Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Khalilia, Nagham Hamad, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Alaa’ Omar, Mustafa Jarrar. For more information, please visit the shared task’s website: <https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-gender-rewriting/> https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Shared Task 5: Arabic Reverse Dictionary Description: This shared task aims to address the Tip-of-Tongue (TOT) problem by developing a Reverse Dictionary (RD) system specifically for the Arabic language. Reverse dictionaries allow users to find words based on their meanings or definitions and can be useful for writers, crossword puzzle enthusiasts, non-native language learners, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. This shared task includes two subtasks: Arabic RD and Cross-lingual Reverse Dictionary (CLRD). Organizers: Rawan Al-Matham, Waad Alshammari, Abdulrahman AlOsaimy, Sarah Alhumoud, Afrah Altamimi, Abdullah Alfaifi. For more information, please visit the shared task’s website: https://samai.ksaa.gov.sa/sharedTask.html –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Important dates: - August 29, 2023: shared task papers due date - October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance - October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due - December 7, 2023: Conference Day All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). The WANLP 2023 Publicity Chairs, Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg -- Salam Khalifa PhD Student at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.
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