AlexandriaX ArabicNLP 2026 Shared Task

System Papers

Paper Guidelines

Guidelines Update

Final conference-specific instructions may be updated closer to the system-paper deadline.

Paper Submission Guidelines

System description papers should explain the submitted system clearly enough for readers to understand the approach, reproduce the main configuration, and interpret the official results.

Papers should be at most 4 pages, excluding references. References are unlimited.

Recommended Paper Structure

  1. Abstract. Briefly summarize the system, participation track or subtask, and main findings.
  2. Introduction. Describe the task, the dialectal Arabic varieties or error-analysis setting addressed, the system strategy, major findings, ranking, and challenges. Include a code URL when available.
  3. Background. Summarize the task setup, input and output format, dataset details, tracks participated in, and relevant related work.
  4. System Overview. Describe algorithms, model choices, prompts or fine-tuning strategy, resources used beyond the provided data, and how the system addresses task-specific challenges. Distinguish multiple submitted systems or configurations clearly.
  5. Experimental Setup. Report data split usage, preprocessing, hyperparameters, external tools and libraries with versions, decoding or post-processing, and the task metrics used for evaluation.
  6. Results. Present official metrics and rankings, ablations, comparisons, and analysis by dialect, track, or error type. Clearly distinguish official results from post-submission experiments.
  7. Conclusion. Summarize the system, limitations, results, and future work.
  8. Acknowledgments. Thank contributors, grants, reviewers, and supporting organizations where appropriate.
  9. Appendix. Put low-level implementation details, extended hyperparameters, and extra examples here when they are useful for replication but not essential to the main paper.

Formatting Requirements

  • Use the official ACL-style conference template linked below.
  • Follow ACL formatting guidelines for page size, margins, fonts, tables, and references.
  • Do not modify style files or use templates from other conferences.
  • Cite the Alexandria dataset paper if participating in Subtask 1, and cite the LQM paper if participating in Subtask 3.
  • Recommended title format: <Team Name> at AlexandriaX-2026: <Your Contribution>.

Key Principles

  • Replicability: provide enough implementation detail to reproduce the system.
  • Analysis: emphasize findings, ablations, multiple runs, and error analysis rather than only rankings.
  • Clarity: summarize the task briefly without duplicating the task overview paper.
  • For standard algorithms, a citation is usually enough; focus detailed space on AlexandriaX-specific choices.
  • Move detailed parameters and hyperparameters to the appendix when space is limited.

Key Dates

  • August 22, 2026: Camera-ready system description papers due.
  • September 1, 2026: Shared task overview paper due.
  • September 10, 2026: Conference camera-ready deadline.
  • October 24-29, 2026: ArabicNLP 2026 / EMNLP 2026 presentation period.