Useful Information about the ALTA 2026 Shared Task

This page contains some links that participants may find useful when attempting the task. More information may be added later on.

1. Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi, Jordan Painter, and Diptesh Kanojia. 2025. BESSTIE: A Benchmark for Sentiment and Sarcasm Classification for Varieties of English. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 8413–8429, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2. Dipankar Srirag, Aditya Joshi, and Jacob Eisenstein. 2025. Predicting the Target Word of Game-playing Conversations using a Low-Rank Dialect Adapter for Decoder Models. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 8–17, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
3. Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu, and Mamta .. 2026. Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 293–303, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
4. Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag, and Aditya Joshi. 2026. Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, pages 18–31, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
5. Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aarohi Srivastava, Kabir Ahuja, David Chiang, Yulia Tsvetkov, and Antonios Anastasopoulos. 2024. DIALECTBENCH: An NLP Benchmark for Dialects, Varieties, and Closely-Related Languages. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 14412–14454, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.