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

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 noisier naturally occurring text spanning Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and multiple dialects. Participants received natural-language definitio