DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task

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arXiv:2610.06298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment analysis is a fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Standard sentiment classification for the Arabic language remains challenging due to the high volume of dialectal Arabic. To advance research in this area, this paper proposes the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis and Swapping in Arabic Dialects (DialectSentEval), hosted with the Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2026). This shared task consis