@inproceedings{447e6d762e0241c1a263151e00375788,
title = "AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026",
abstract = "We present the findings of the AbjadGenEval shared task, organized as part of the AbjadNLP workshop at EACL 2026, which benchmarks AI-generated text detection for Arabic-script languages. Extending beyond Arabic to include Urdu, the task serves as a binary classification platform distinguishing human-written from AI-generated news articles produced by varied LLMs (e.g., GPT, Gemini). Twenty teams participated, with top systems achieving F1 scores of 0.93 for Arabic and 0.89 for Urdu. The results highlight the dominance of multilingual transformers-specifically XLM-RoBERTa and DeBERTa-v3-and reveal significant challenges in cross-domain generalization, where naive data augmentation often yielded diminishing returns. This shared task establishes a robust baseline for authenticating content in the Abjad ecosystem.",
author = "Saad Ezzini and Irfan Ahmad and Salmane Chafik and Shadi Abudalfa and Mo El-Haj and Ahmed Abdelali and Mustafa Jarrar and Nadir Durrani and Hassan Sajjad and Farah Adeeba",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics.; 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, AbjadNLP 2026 ; Conference date: 28-03-2026",
year = "2026",
month = mar,
day = "28",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.68",
language = "English",
series = "EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, AbjadNLP 2026",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "530--537",
editor = "Mo El-Haj and Mo El-Haj and Paul Rayson and Mustafa Jarrar and Ignatius Ezeani and Saad Ezzini and Sina Ahmadi and Haddad, \{Amal Haddad\} and Cynthia Amol and Ahmad Abdelali and Shadi Abudalfa",
booktitle = "EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, AbjadNLP 2026",
address = "United States",
}