This Shared Task is part of the Nakba-NLP 2026 Workshop, itself part of LREC 2026.
Since October 7, 2023, the Tech for Palestine incubator project SaltPillar has been archiving millions of images from social media.
Some of these images pertain directly to the violence of the Nakba: airstrikes, shooting, injury, death, blood, terror, grief, destruction. Other images are only indirectly relevant: children playing, adults drinking coffee, journalists giving speeches abroad, etc. As we move to make these data more accessible, categorizing the data is of high priority.
In this Shared Task, participants will be asked to train a binary image classifier on approximately 4,000 images, to help distinguish images of immediate relevance from those that are more peripherally relevant. The classifier will then be tested on a hold-out set of 1,000 images.
Example of a Relevant Image:
Example of an Irrelevant Image: