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 [1]
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 [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4],
POHA [5], Alhaq [6], ICHR [7] 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).
* Submission Deadline: 20 February 2026
* Reviewing Period: 21 February 2026 - 10 March 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: 11 March 2026
* Camera Ready paper submission Hard Deadline: 30 March 2026
* Workshop Date: 11, 12 or 16 May, 2026
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
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Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her)
Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad
Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad
Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines,
Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala
Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching'
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