9:00–9:05 Opening Remarks
9:05–9:25 AMIYA Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent at VarDial 2026 – Nathaniel R. Robinson, Shahd Abdelmoneim, Anjali Kantharuban, Otba Alsboul, Salima Lamsiyah, Kelly Marchisio and Kenton Murray
9:25–9:30 MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic – Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin, Ranwa Aly and Bashar Alhafni
9:30–9:50 Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English – Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag and Aditya Joshi
9:50–10:10 OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification – Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice and Benoît Sagot
10:10–10:30 Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects – Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, Konstantina Panagiotou, Maria Elisavet Plaiti, Nefeli Tzanakaki, Petros Karatsareas, Angela Ralli, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Stella Markantonatou
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:30 Poster Spotlight Presentations (remote attendants only) and Poster Session Overview
11:30–12:30 Poster Session
Far Out: Evaluating Language Models on Slang in Australian and Indian English – Deniz Kaya Dilsiz, Dipankar Srirag and Aditya Joshi
Effects of Speaker Bias in Dialect Identification and Automatic Transcription with Self-Supervised Speech Models – Olli Kuparinen
OcWikiDialects: A Wikipedia Dataset With Rich Metadata for Occitan Dialect Identification – Oriane Nédey, Rachel Bawden, Thibault Clérice and Benoît Sagot
Language Mixture to Develop Accurate Galician Dependency Parsers: An Exploration of Its Effects – Xabier Irastortza-Urbieta, José M. García-Miguel and Marcos Garcia
Crowdsourcing Piedmontese to Test LLMs on Non-Standard Orthography – Gianluca Vico and Jindřch Libovický
German-English Code-Switching in Large Language Models – Firat Cem Aksüt, Stefan Hillmann, Pia Knoeferle and Sebastian Möller
Perplexity as a Metric for Dialectal Distance: A Computational Study of Greek Varieties – Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Erofili Psaltaki, Dimitrios Papadakis, Erik Henriksson and Veronika Laippala
A Subword Embedding Approach for Variation Detection in Luxembourgish User Comments – Anne-Marie Lutgen, Alistair Plum and Christoph Purschke
Onomasiological Sense Alignment Across Dialect Dictionaries. A Taxonomy-Constrained LLM Classification – Nathalie Mederake, Nico Urbach, Hanna Fischer and Alfred Lameli
On the Intelligibility of Romance Language Varieties: Spanish and Portuguese in Europe and America – Liviu P. Dinu, Ana Sabina Uban, Teodor-George Marchitan, Ioan-Bogdan Iordache and Simona Georgescu
Dialect Matters: Cross-Lingual ASR Transfer for Low-Resource Indic Language Varieties – Akriti Dhasmana, Aarohi Srivastava and David Chiang
Ara-HOPE: Human-Centric Post-Editing Evaluation for Dialectal Arabic to Modern Standard Arabic Translation – Abdullah Alabdullah, Lifeng Han and Chenghua Lin
Indic-TunedLens: Interpreting Multilingual Models in Indian Languages – Mihir Panchal, Deeksha Varshney, Mamta . and Asif Ekbal
Building ASR Resources for the Hutsul Dialect of Ukrainian – Roman Kyslyi, Artem Orlovskyi, Pavlo Khomenko, Bohdan Onyshchenko and Zakhar Guzii
From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models – Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam and Gerasimos Spanakis
Extending ASR Evaluation Resources for Modern Greek Dialects – Chara Tsoukala, Stavros Bompolas, Antigoni Margariti, Konstantina Panagiotou, Maria Elisavet Plaiti, Nefeli Tzanakaki, Petros Karatsareas, Angela Ralli, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Stella Markantonatou
How Should We Model the Probability of a Language? – Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice and Benoît Sagot
Bridging Dialectal Variation: A Phonetic Transcription Tool for Tamil – Ahrane Mahaganapathy, Sumirtha Karunakaran, Kavitha Navakulan and Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran
Regional Variation in the Performance of ASR Models on Croatian and Serbian – Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik and Nikola Ljubešić
Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties – Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Jordan Kodner, Salam Khalifa, Ellen Broselow and Owen Rambow
Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models – Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan, Amr Keleg and Preslav Nakov
OpenLID-v3: Improving the Precision of Closely Related Language Identification - An Experience Report – Mariia Fedorova, Nikolay Arefyev, Maja Buljan, Jindřich Helcl, Stephan Oepen, Egil Rønningstad and Yves Scherrer
Improving Dialect Robustness in Large Language Models via LoRA and Mixture-of-Experts – Sanjh Maheshwari, Aniket Singh Rajpoot, Oana Cocarascu and Mamta
Evaluation Framework for Transfer Learning between Closely Related Lects: A Case Study of Lemko – Ilia Afanasev
Do Large Language Models Adapt to Language Variation across Socioeconomic Status? – Elisa Bassignana, Mike Zhang, Dirk Hovy and Amanda Cercas Curry
Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation – Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen and Pierrette Bouillon
Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding – Abdulhai Alali and Abderrahmane Issam
SDNLP at AMIYA 2026: Syrian Arabic Dialect Modeling with LoRA – Hasan Alkhder and Mohammad Abboush
NUS-IDS at AMIYA/VarDial 2026: Improving Arabic Dialectness in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning – Sujatha Das Gollapalli, Mouad Hakam, Mingzhe Du and See-Kiong Ng
MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic – Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin, Ranwa Aly and Bashar Alhafni
A Closed-Track System for Palestinian Arabic in the AMIYA Shared Task – Khaleel Hamad and Ahmad Al-Najjar