We are pleased to invite you to participate in StanceNakba 2026, a shared task co-located with LREC 2026 as part of Nakba-NLP 2026: The 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources.
The shared task focuses on Actor- and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in polarized social media discourse related to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. Task Overview * Subtask A (English): Actor-Level Stance Detection Labels: Pro-Palestine | Pro-Israel | Neutral * Subtask B (Arabic): Cross-Topic Stance Detection Labels: Favor | Against | Neither Topics: normalization with Israel and refugee presence in Jordan Dataset & Evaluation * 2,606 manually annotated social media posts * English and Arabic datasets * Primary evaluation metric: Macro-F1 Important Dates * Training data release: January 10, 2026 * System submission deadline: February 17, 2026 * Workshop: May 11–16, 2026 (TBC) Participation in the shared task is free of charge. Please note that at least one member of each participating team must be registered for the conference. Further details, data access, and submission instructions are available on the shared task website: https://marsadlab.github.io/stancenakba/index.html If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. We warmly encourage you to join us in advancing stance detection research and improving our understanding of polarized online discourse. Kind regards, The StanceNakba 2026 Organizing Team
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