Call for Shared Tasks

We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be included in the ArabicNLP 2025 conference. Proposals should include the following details:

• Overview of the proposed task

• Motivation for the task

• Data/Resource Collection and Creation (please specify the current status of the data: 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 and can be up to 4 pages long.

Shared Task Proposal Submission Link: https://forms.gle/3bWWBFV42cYNYaUP9 

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).

Selection Process

The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.

Task Organization

Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.

Important Dates

• April 6th, 2025: Shared task proposals due 

• April 20th, 2025: Notification of shared task proposal acceptance

Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls

• 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

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).

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