AraGenre 2026: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task

Excerpt

arXiv:2609.27387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AraGenre is a shared task on hierarchical, definition-guided Arabic genre classification, motivated by the limited availability of annotated data in Arabic and other low-resource languages. Systems assign each Arabic text segment both a broad communicative genre and a fine-grained specific genre. The released training and development sets contain limited, primarily synthetic and controlled examples, whereas the hidden final benchmark contains noisi