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          <h4 id="side-table-header">Recent Updates</h4><br>
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              <li>Nov 2, 2026: <a href="https://edulens.qcri.org/datathon/" target="_blank">Shared Task 3 (BLP Datathon)</a> details are published.</li>
              <li>Nov 1, 2026: <a href="https://multilingual-qa.github.io/" target="_blank">Shared Task 2 (Multilingual Question Answering)</a> details are published.</li>
              <li>Oct 14, 2026: <a href="https://banglaknight.github.io/" target="_blank">Shared Task 1 (Adversarial Prompt Classification)</a> details are published.</li>
              <li>Oct 10, 2026: <a href="/cfp">Call for Papers</a> is published.</li>
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              <li>Sep 9, 2023: Submission deadline is <span style="color: red"> extended to Sep 12 12:59 PM (UTC-0)</span>.</li>
              <li>Sep 1, 2023: <a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2023/Workshop/BLP&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)" target="_blank">Paper Submission Portal</a> is available in OpenReview. Every author of the paper needs to register in <a href="https://openreview.net/" target="_blank">OpenReview</a>.</li>
              <li>Aug 21, 2023: Shared task rank lists are public. <a href="https://github.com/blp-workshop/blp_task1#rank-list" target="_blank">Task 1</a>, <a href="https://github.com/blp-workshop/blp_task2#leaderboard" target="_blank">Task 2</a>.</li>-->
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              <li>Jul 20, 2025: <a href="/sharedtasks">Two Shared Tasks</a> are announced.</li>
              <li>June 19, 2025: Website is up!</li>
              <li>June 19, 2025: Join the <a href="https://join.slack.com/t/blpworkshop/shared_invite/zt-4by5nm5ub-ENr4LO0BftNmOwResLYazg">Slack</a> channel for communication.</li> -->
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        <h4 id="side-table-header">Important Dates</h4>
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                Feb 15 (Mon), 2027
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                Mar 26 (Fri), 2027
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                Apr 16 (Fri), 2027

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              <td>June 2027 co-located with <a href="https://2027.naacl.org/" target="_blank">NAACL</a></td>
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      <h2 id="shared-tasks">Shared Tasks</h2>

<p>We are pleased to endorse the following shared tasks and strongly encourage participants to take part and submit their papers to the workshop:</p>

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  <li><strong><a href="https://banglaknight.github.io/" target="_blank">Task 1 - Adversarial Prompt Classification</a>:</strong> Classifying Bangla prompts, from harmless requests to jailbreak attempts, into four risk levels (Safe, Offensive, Harmful, Severe), whether written in Bangla script, romanized Bangla, or code-mixed with other languages.</li>
  <li><span id="task2"></span><strong><a href="https://multilingual-qa.github.io/">Task 2 - Multilingual Question Answering</a>:</strong> Culturally and regionally grounded open-ended QA in <strong>Bangla, English, Assamese, and Hindi</strong>, with monolingual QA and multilingual QA settings based on the MultiNativQA resource.</li>
  <li><span id="task3"></span><strong><a href="/datathon">Task 3 - BLP Datathon</a>:</strong> Collecting regional Bangla speech recordings and identifying where open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) models struggle with different dialects and accents through community-driven participation.</li>
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<p>If you participate in these shared tasks, you are highly encouraged to submit a <strong>system description paper</strong> to the workshop by the submission deadline.</p>

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<h3 id="submission-details">Submission Details</h3>

<p>For the <strong>system description paper</strong> submissions, please see the <strong>Submission Guidelines</strong> in the <a href="/cfp">CFP</a>.</p>

<h3 id="submission-portal">Submission Portal</h3>

<p>System description papers should be submitted via the OpenReview portal. The link will be available soon.</p>

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