Call for Shared Task Proposals – ArabicNLP 2025

ArabicNLP 2025 is now accepting shared task proposals. Submit your proposal by April 6, 2025, and contribute to the advancement of Arabic NLP research.

The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025), co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China, is now accepting proposals for shared tasks. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of Arabic NLP research and engage with the global NLP community.

• Overview of the Proposed Task
• Motivation for the Task
• Data/Resource Collection and Creation (planned, in progress, or ready)
• Task Description
• Pilot Run Details (if available)
• Tentative Timeline
• Task Organizers (name, email, and affiliation)

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format, up to 4 pages long, via the Shared Task Proposal Submission Link.

Important Dates:

• April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due
• April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance
• June 1, 2025: Release of training, dev, and dev-test data, and evaluation scripts
• July 20, 2025: Registration deadline and release of test data
• July 25, 2025: End of evaluation cycle (test set submission closes)
• July 30, 2025: Final results released
• August 15, 2025: System description paper submissions due
• August 25, 2025: Notification of acceptance
• September 5, 2025: Camera-ready versions due
• November 5-9, 2025: Main Conference

For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chairs at arabicnlp-shared-task-chair at sigarab.org.

Tags: ArabicNLP 2025, Shared Task Proposals, NLP Conference, EMNLP 2025, Arabic NLP, Natural Language Processing