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Abjad 2026 Programme<\/h2>\n

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Workshop date<\/strong><\/td>\nSaturday 28 March 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Participation<\/strong><\/td>\nHybrid (in-person and online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/strong><\/td>\nPalais Des Congres (Room: SALLE Les Riad)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workshop duration<\/strong><\/td>\n9:00 \u2013 17:45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Underline URL\u00a0 (to attend online, registered users only)<\/strong><\/td>\nhttps:\/\/underline.io\/events\/522\/sessions?eventSessionId=22404&searchGroup=lecture<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Q&A (remote attendees)<\/strong><\/td>\nTo ask questions during the talks, please use the Zoom link provided to you via Underline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Time<\/th>\nMode<\/th>\nPresentation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00\u201309:15<\/td>\nWelcome and overview of the shared tasks<\/strong>
\nMo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini, Ahmad Abdelali, Shadi Abudalfa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:15\u201310:00<\/td>\nKeynote:<\/strong> Dr. Violetta Cavalli-Sforza<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 1: Benchmarking<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00\u201310:15<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nAraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models<\/strong>
\nMohamad Bilal Zbib, Hasan Abed Al, Kader Hammoud, Ammar Mohanna, Nadine Rizk, Fatima Karnib, Sina Moukaled, Bernard Ghanem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15\u201310:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nU-MIRAGE: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Urdu Medical QA<\/strong>
\nAli Faheem, Faizad Ullah, Muhammad Hammad, Ahmed Hassan, Muhammad Sohaib Ayub, Asim Karim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30\u201311:00<\/td>\nCoffee break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 2: Morphology<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00\u201311:15<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nAjamiMorph: Zero-Annotation Morphological Discovery for Hausa Ajami via Multi-Method Consensus<\/strong>
\nSoumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Prithwish Ghosh, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:15\u201311:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nMorphological Feature Extraction for Fine-Grained Sorani Kurdish Dialect Identification<\/strong>
\nSoumedhik Bharati, Shibam Mandal, Subham Majumdar, Swarup Kr Ghosh, Sayani Mondal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30\u201311:45<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nMurabaa: A Comprehensive Resource Platform for Arabic Morphology<\/strong>
\nKarim Bouzoubaa, Driss Namly, Hamid Jihad, Rachida Tajmout, Jamal Ezzouaine, Hakima Khamar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45\u201312:00<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nQAMAR: A Fully Verified Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis Resource<\/strong>
\nSara Faqihi, Karim Bouzoubaa, Rachida Tajmout, Driss Namly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 3: Sentiment<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00\u201312:15<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nRethinking Polarity Detection: When BPE Fails Across Scripts<\/strong>
\nManodyna K H, Luc De Nardi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:15\u201312:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nEnhancing Urdu Sentiment Classification through Instruction-Tuned LLMs<\/strong>
\nHasan Faraz Khan, Noor Fatima, Irfan Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30\u201312:45<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nImproving Models for Sentiment Analysis on Saudi-English Code-Switching Text<\/strong>
\nSamaher Alghamdi, Paul Rayson, Reem Alotibi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:45\u201313:00<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nReliability-Guided QUBO Selection for Arabic Sentiment Prediction<\/strong>
\nRabab Alkhalifa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00\u201314:00<\/td>\nLunch break<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 4: Character set issues<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00\u201314:15<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nKazakhOCR: Multimodal Benchmark for Low-Resource Kazakh Script OCR<\/strong>
\nHenry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:15\u201314:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nCharacter-Level Transformer for Tajik\u2013Persian Transliteration<\/strong>
\nArabov Mullosharaf Kurbonovich<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30\u201314:45<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nOrthographic Robustness of Persian Named Entity Recognition Models<\/strong>
\nHenry Gagnier, Sophie Gagnier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:45\u201315:00<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nCode-Switching as a Safety Failure Mode in Large Language Models<\/strong>
\nWaleed Jamil, Saima Rafi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00\u201315:15<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nAraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for Arabic<\/strong>
\nOmar Elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai, Muhammed Ragab, Khloud Al Jallad, Mona Abdelazim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:15\u201315:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nFrom Classical to Contemporary: Evolutionary Analysis & Classification of Urdu Poetry<\/strong>
\nNoor Fatima, Hasan Faraz Khan, Irfan Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30\u201316:30<\/td>\nPoster session (coffee break 15:30\u201316:00) <<<See list of accepted posters below<\/span>>>><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Session 5: Speech and toxicity<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:30\u201316:45<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nCurrent State of LLMs for Arabic Dialectal Machine Translation<\/strong>
\nJosef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Ond\u0159ej Bojar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:45\u201317:00<\/td>\nIn-person<\/td>\nLLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models<\/strong>
\nAhmed Khamis, Hesham Ali Ahmed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00\u201317:15<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nParameter-Efficient Adaptation of Self-Supervised Models for Arabic Speech Recognition<\/strong>
\nWafa Mohammed Alshehri, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Ismail Amro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:15\u201317:30<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nOptimizer Choice and Calibration for QARiB on Arabic-Script Social Media Offensive Language Detection<\/strong>
\nAuda Elshokry, Mohammed Alhanjouri<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:30\u201317:45<\/td>\nOnline<\/td>\nHACS-TL: Cross-Script Transfer Learning for Hausa Ajami Hate Speech Detection Using Transformer-Based Architecture<\/strong>
\nAbdulkadir Shehu Bichi, Muqaddar Ali, Prashant Sharma, Ismail Dauda Abubakar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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List of accepted posters<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Paper title<\/th>\nAuthors<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry<\/td>\nMo El-Haj<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seeing Words Differently: Visual Embeddings for Robust English-Arabic Machine Translation<\/td>\nMahdi Alshaikh Saleh and Irfan Ahmad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
QurSci-Onto: A Hierarchical Ontology and Dataset for Scientific Exegesis in the Quran<\/td>\nIbad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Junaid Hussain and Sadam Al-Azani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OMAN-SPEECH: A Multi-Layer Annotated Speech Corpus for Omani Arabic Dialects<\/td>\nRayyan S. Al Khadhuri, Firas Al Mahrouqi, Salim Al Mandhari, Amir Azad Al-Kathiri, Omar Said Alshahri, Ghassab Mansoor Alsaqr, Badri Abdulhakim Mudhsh and Tarek Fatnassi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hala Technical Report Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at Scale<\/td>\nHasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Mohamad Bilal Zbib and Bernard Ghanem<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Posts to Pressure: An Arabic Dataset about Stress and Mental-Health Monitoring<\/td>\nWajdi Zaghouani, Eman Sedqy Shlkamy and Mabrouka Bessghaier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DeformAR: A Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluation of Arabic Named Entity Recognition<\/td>\nAhmed Mustafa Younes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents<\/td>\nNawal Haidar, Ahmad Kashmar and Fadi Zaraket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and Platform<\/td>\nSalem Lahlou<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arabic-Adapted One-Step Speech-to-Diacritized ASR: Evaluation and Error Analysis<\/td>\nOsamah A. I. Abduljalil, Dalal Ali, Razan A. Bajaman and Abdullah I. Alharbi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arabic Dialect Translation with Small LLMs: Enhancing through Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning<\/td>\nSohaila Abdulsattar and Keith Ross<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arabic Citation Parsing using Part of Speech and Named Entity Recognition<\/td>\nYoussef Karout, Hadi Hammoud and Fadi Zaraket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alkhalil Corpus: An Open-Source Thematic and Lemmatized Corpus for Modern Standard Arabic<\/td>\nSamir Belayachi and Azzeddine Mazroui<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Knowledge Graph Based Diagnostic Framework for Analyzing Hallucinations in Arabic Machine Reading Comprehension<\/td>\nNajwa Abdullah AlGhamdi, Sadam Al-Azani, Kwabena Nuamah and Alan Bundy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Hybrid Confidence-Aware Framework for Arabic Toxicity Detection in Social Media<\/td>\nFawzia Zaal Alanazi, Asma Mohammed Alamri, Arwa Bin Saleh and Abdullah I. Alharbi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Corpus-Based Investigation of Contemporary Arabic Dialects Using the SADA Corpus<\/td>\nGhada Alfattni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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