The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
Part of the COLING-2025 Conference
Abu Dhabi, UAE (Fully Virtual)
January 20, 2025
The narratives of the (ongoing) Palestinian Nakba possess significant historical, cultural, literary, and academic value. Preserving this content and empowring it with AI tools is crucial for ensuring its accessibility and usability for present and future generations. Nakba narratives and testimonies exist in diverse formats such as manuscripts, books, audio recordings, novels, and films. Converting this content into a machine-understandable format presents a notable challenge. Establishing accessible archives and well-annotated collections is essential for researchers and historians to verify and share meaningful information.
This workshop aims to explore how artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics can assist in understanding, disseminating and preserving, Nakba narratives and testimonies. The goal is to create accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated collections that empower researchers and historians to validate and share critical insights derived from these data. The workshop targets datasets and narratives in Arabic, English, and other languages, however, submitted articles should be written in English.
We seek contributions on the following issues of interest:
Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies, The Palestinian Museum, Nakba-Archive, POHA,Alhaq,ICHR, as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph.
All submitted papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of ‘Nakba Narratives as Language Resources’. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals.
Submissions may be of two types:
The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy: Policy. COLING 2025 submission templates: Template. Submission URL: Please submit here.
TBD
Panelists, here is the esteemed list of panelists joining the discussion:
Title: “Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage in the LLMs Era”. This session will focus on how Corpus and NLP techniques can support the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage materials, such as testimonies, books, narratives, blogs, and media. The discussion will address the following essential questions:
Birzeit University, Palestine
New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Lancaster University, UK
Harvard Law School, USA
Institute for Palestine Studies, Lebanon
McGill University, Canada
Lancaster University, UK
Birzeit University, Palestine
Publicity Chair
University of Granada, Spain
Publicity Chair