Call for Papers
The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023, formerly WANLP 2023) Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore.
ArabicNLP 2023 invites the submission of original long, short or demo papers in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. ArabicNLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful, drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. ArabicNLP 2023 will also feature shared tasks, allowing participants to work on specific NLP challenges related to Arabic language processing. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing.
Important Dates
May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals
May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks
September 5, 2023 (Extended) September 12, 2023: conference papers due date
October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance
October 20, 2023: (Extended) October 22, 2023: camera-ready papers due
December 7, 2023: conference Day
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
We accept long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions.
Presentation Mode: Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee.
Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Enabling core technologies: language models and large language models, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.
Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc.
Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc.
Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work.
Paper Submission Instructions
Submission Website: https://openreview.net/group?id=SIGARAB.org/ArabicNLP/2023/Conference
Types of Papers: We invite research papers (long and short), demo papers, and shared task description papers.
Paper Length: Long research papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Short research papers, demo papers, and shared task description papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account.
Submission Formatting: Please follow the EMNLP official LaTeX or Word templates available at EMNLP 2023 paper formatting guidelines
Discussion of "Limitations": As per EMNLP's guidelines, each paper should have a mandatory "Limitations" section which does not count toward the page limit.
Appendices: Each ArabicNLP 2023 submission can be accompanied by an appendix, which will appear in the main paper’s PDF, after the bibliography. A submission may also be accompanied by one .tgz or .zip archive containing software, and one .tgz or .zip archive containing data.
However, the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review or download them.Blind Reviewing Policy: The conference follows a blind reviewing policy for the main conference tracks (Long, Short, and Demo). The authors should omit their names and affiliations from the paper and avoid self-references that reveal their identities. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Multiple Submission Policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors must inform the organizers immediately once a paper is to be withdrawn from the conference for any reason. Attempting to publish the same paper or with a significant overlap (50%) may lead to rejection of the paper even after an acceptance notification has gone out.
Anonymity and Supplementary Material: As the reviewing will be blind, pay attention to the following:
Papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Omar, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Omar previously showed (Omar, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use the third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Omar showed” rather than “we showed”).
Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper. Papers that are submitted with accompanying software/data may receive additional credit toward the overall evaluation, and the potential impact of the software and data will be taken into account when making the acceptance/rejection decisions.
Anonymity Period: We follow the guidelines of EMNLP 2023 for the Anonymity Period with the period being 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date of acceptance, rejection, or withdrawal (August 5, 2023, to October 12, 2023).
If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs@sigarab.org