📰 Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 70 papers of it; our library holds 51 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026Saad Ezzini, Irfan Ahmad, Salmane Chafik et al.1 citation · our summary
2. AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language ModelsMohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents ↗Nawal Haidar, Ahmad Kashmar, Fadi Zaraket1 citation
4. Current state of LLMs for Arabic dialectal machine translationJosef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ondřej Bojar1 citation · our summary
5. DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity RecognitionAhmed Mustafa Younes1 citation · our summary
6. From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health MonitoringWajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy, Mabrouka Bessghaier1 citation · our summary
7. KazakhOCR: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Models in Low-Resource Kazakh Script OCR ↗Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran1 citation
8. LoRAD: Low-Resource AI-Generated Text Detection with XLM-RoBERTaAli Zain1 citation · our summary
9. Murabaa: A comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic MorphologyKarim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (70)

The most cited first; 51 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026Saad Ezzini, Irfan Ahmad, Salmane Chafik et al.1 citation · our summary
2. AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language ModelsMohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents ↗Nawal Haidar, Ahmad Kashmar, Fadi Zaraket1 citation
4. Current state of LLMs for Arabic dialectal machine translationJosef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ondřej Bojar1 citation · our summary
5. DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity RecognitionAhmed Mustafa Younes1 citation · our summary
6. From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health MonitoringWajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy, Mabrouka Bessghaier1 citation · our summary
7. KazakhOCR: A Synthetic Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Models in Low-Resource Kazakh Script OCR ↗Henry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran1 citation
8. LoRAD: Low-Resource AI-Generated Text Detection with XLM-RoBERTaAli Zain1 citation · our summary
9. Murabaa: A comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic MorphologyKarim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad et al.1 citation · our summary
10. A Corpus-Based Investigation of Contemporary Arabic Dialects Using the SADA CorpusGhada Alfattniour summary
11. A Hybrid Confidence-Aware Framework for Arabic Toxicity Detection in Social MediaFawzia Zaal Alanazi, Asma Mohammed Alamri, Arwa Bin Saleh et al.our summary
12. A Knowledge Graph Based Diagnostic Framework for Analyzing Hallucinations in Arabic Machine Reading ComprehensionNajwa Abdullah AlGhamdi, Sadam Al-Azani, Kwabena Nuamah et al.our summary
13. A Stylometric and Statistical Pipeline for Urdu AI-Generated Text Classification ↗saeed A. Anabtawi
14. AbjadAuthorID: Authorship Identification for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026 ↗Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali et al.
15. AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification at AbjadNLP 2026Pranav Gupta, Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan et al.our summary
16. AbjadStyleTransfer: Authorship Style Transfer for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026 ↗Shadi Abudalfa, Saad Ezzini, Ahmed Abdelali et al.
17. AjamiMorph: Zero-Annotation Morphological Discovery for Hausa Ajami via Multi-Method Consensus ↗Soumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Prithwish Ghosh et al.
18. Alkhalil Corpus: An Open-Source Thematic and Lemmatized Corpus for Modern Standard ArabicSamir Belayachi, Azzeddine Mazrouiour summary
19. AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for ArabicOmar Elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai et al.our summary
20. Arabic Author Attribution Using Transformer-Based Models: Insights from the AbjadAuthorID Shared Task ↗Ghader Kurdi
21. Arabic Citation Parsing using Part of Speech and Named Entity RecognitionYoussef Karout, Hadi Hamoud, Fadi A. Zaraketour summary
22. Arabic Dialect Translation with Small LLMs: Enhancing through Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement LearningSohaila Abdulsattar, Keith Rossour summary
23. Arabic-Adapted One-Step Speech-to-Diacritized ASR: Evaluation and Error AnalysisOsamah A. I. Abduljalil, Dalal Ali, Razan A. Bajaman et al.our summary
24. ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and PlatformSalem Lahlouour summary
25. ArabicMedicalBERT-QA-82 at AbjadMed: Fighting Class Imbalance in Arabic Medical Text ClassificationGleb Shanshinour summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (51)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptSaad Ezzini, Irfan Ahmad, Salmane Chafik, et al.2026 · 10 citations
2. AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification at AbjadNLP 2026Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptPranav Gupta, Niranjan Kumar M, Balaji Nagarajan, et al.2026 · 9 citations
3. Hala Technical Report Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at ScaleWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptHasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Mohamad Bilal Zbib, Bernard Ghanem2026 · 5 citations
4. From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health MonitoringWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptWajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy, Mabrouka Bessghaier2026 · 4 citations
5. Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and PoetryWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptMo El-Haj2026 · 3 citations
6. AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language ModelsWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptMohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna, et al.2026 · 3 citations
7. AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for ArabicWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptOmar Elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai, et al.2026 · 2 citations
8. Current state of LLMs for Arabic dialectal machine translationWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptJosef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ondřej Bojar2026 · 2 citations
9. DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity RecognitionWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptAhmed Mustafa Younes2026 · 2 citations
10. A Knowledge Graph Based Diagnostic Framework for Analyzing Hallucinations in Arabic Machine Reading ComprehensionWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptNajwa Abdullah AlGhamdi, Sadam Al-Azani, Kwabena Nuamah, et al.2026 · 1 citation
11. Murabaa: A comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic MorphologyWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptKarim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad, et al.2026 · 1 citation
12. LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech ModelsWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptAhmed Khamis, Hesham Ali Ahmed2026 · 1 citation
13. LoRAD: Low-Resource AI-Generated Text Detection with XLM-RoBERTaWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptAli Zain2026 · 1 citation
14. Arabic-Adapted One-Step Speech-to-Diacritized ASR: Evaluation and Error AnalysisWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptOsamah A. I. Abduljalil, Dalal Ali, Razan A. Bajaman, et al.2026
15. Arabic Dialect Translation with Small LLMs: Enhancing through Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement LearningWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptSohaila Abdulsattar, Keith Ross2026
16. A Hybrid Confidence-Aware Framework for Arabic Toxicity Detection in Social MediaWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptFawzia Zaal Alanazi, Asma Mohammed Alamri, Arwa Bin Saleh, et al.2026
17. A Corpus-Based Investigation of Contemporary Arabic Dialects Using the SADA CorpusWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptGhada Alfattni2026
18. Improving on State-of-the-Art Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching TextWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptSamaher Alghamdi, Paul Rayson, Reem Alotibi2026
19. Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment PredictionWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptRabab Alkhalifa2026
20. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Self-Supervised Models for Arabic Speech RecognitionWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptWafa Mohammed Alshehri, Wasfi G. Al-khatib, Mohammad Ismail Amro2026
21. Uslub at AbjadAuthorID Shared Task: A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Machine Learning and Transformer-Based Models for Authorship Attribution in Arabic and UrduWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptShahad Alsuhaibani, Mohamed Alkaoud2026
22. Alkhalil Corpus: An Open-Source Thematic and Lemmatized Corpus for Modern Standard ArabicWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptSamir Belayachi, Azzeddine Mazroui2026
23. HACS-TL: Cross-Script Transfer Learning for Hausa Ajami Hate Speech Detection Using Transformer-Based ArchitectureWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptAbdulkadir Shehu Bichi, Muqaddar Ali, Prashant Sharma, et al.2026
24. Kashif-AI at AbjadGenEval Shared Task: A Transformer-based Approach for Arabic AI-Generated Text DetectionWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptEmad Eldin, Fatimah Mohamed2026
25. Tashkees-AI at AbjadMed 2026: Flat vs. Hierarchical Classification for Fine-Grained Arabic Medical QAWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptEmad Eldin, Fatimah Mohamed2026

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🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

Semitic languages (50)❓Question answering (4)😊Sentiment & emotion (4)🎙️Speech & spoken language (4)🧩Morphology (4)🔁Machine translation (3)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (3)🏷️Named entity recognition (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (2)🕸️Knowledge graphs & ontologies (2)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (2)English (2)🔤Part-of-speech tagging (1)🌱Low-resource languages (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (50)🎭Arts and Humanities (47)🤝Social Sciences (3)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)🎯Decision Sciences (1)💭Psychology (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsDhahran · Saudi Arabia5 works here🎓Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam3 works here🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States3 works here🎓Mohammed V UniversityRabat · Morocco2 works here🎓Ecole Mohammadia d'IngénieursRabat · Morocco2 works here🎓Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversityAl Kharj · Saudi Arabia2 works here🎓Cairo UniversityGiza · Egypt2 works here🎓Benha UniversityBanhā · Egypt2 works here🎓Ho Chi Minh City University of ScienceHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam2 works here🎓Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic UniversityRiyadh · Saudi Arabia2 works here🎓ElSewedy University of TechnologyCairo · Egypt2 works here🎓King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyJeddah · Saudi Arabia2 works here

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