Important message: The LREC-COLING deadline was extended by one week to Oct 20. Please RT! lrec-coling-2024.org/2nd-call-for-p…

Super excited about this! QUD parsing is a new discourse task where the key is a challenging ❓question generation❓ component, and our work tackles principled evaluation for the first time. Lots of interesting questions opened up!

Working on long document/context? Coherence? Incorporating contextual knowledge in NLP tasks? Classic discourse? Anaphora? The CODI workshop will take place with EACL, deadline Dec 20. Findings/double submission welcome! sites.google.com/view/codi2024/…

#CODIworkshop on Twitter 👏🏻 Keep updating the latest news about #discourse, discourse parsing , coherence models, discourse-level understanding and representation study, #NLProc This year will be co-located with #eacl at #malta !

Call for direct submission! Have work in discourse/long context NLP rejected at a main conferences? Submit to CODI workshop at softconf.com/eacl2024/CODI-… by **Jan 17**!

Big announcement 📣 #codiworkshop will take place March 21 eaclmeeting ! Consider directly submit your rejected papers to CODI by Jan. 21 🔔 Stay tuned for further instructions: sites.google.com/view/codi2024 Join us for a fun day workshop! 🥳

#codiworkshop 📢CODI program is OUT! We have 2 poster sessions and 1 oral session. Authors, please refer to the schedule page for your presentation mode: sites.google.com/view/codi2024/… #eacl2024 eaclmeeting

We are excited to host Valentina Pyatkin from MOSAIC for a talk titled "Underspecified Language in Context". Join us on Wednesday Feb 28 at 3 pm at ICICS X836! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

At AAAI in Vancouver this week? Make sure to check out the CLEI 2024 industry panel, where we discuss current challenges in commercializing LLMs. When? Saturday 6:30pm. Sign up here: aaaipanel.rsvpify.com

[New Preprint] Check out our new research on knowledge distillation in the context of humor generation: "Small but Funny: A Feedback-Driven Approach to Humor Distillation" Link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.18113 🧵1/N

>95% of languages are low-resourced in language technology, with languages in the Middle East especially underrepresented. Help us change this! 🆘🚨📢 If you speak Mazandarani, Gilaki, Tati, Luri, Laki, Shabaki, Achomi, Southern Kurdish, or Hawrami, we need your help! #NLProc

Céline Dion has a rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes muscle stiffness called stiff person syndrome. There is no treatment and she has not performed in 4 years. She just opened the Olympics with this stunning performance. Magnifique.

I am looking for emergency reviewers for missing reviews in the "Low-resourced and Less Studied Languages" track at #COLING2025. Please let me know if you can help! #nlproc

📣Speech technologies for Middle Eastern languages Following our initiative to create parallel corpora, we are collecting audio data for speech recognition. We need your help to record yourself while reading sentences in your language using our bot t.me/dolma_speech_b… #nlproc

🚀 Excited about the future of NLP? Join us for the Future of NLP Workshop! 📅 Date: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024 ⏰ Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 📍 Location: UBC Robson Square, Theatre C300 👉 RSVP by Dec 3 to secure your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/1rhVnI… Organized by UBC NLP Group & Vector Institute

We're excited to see you all tomorrow! 🤩 The event will be in UBC Robson Square in downtown (800 Robson St, Vancouver, near the ice rink ⛸️) so make sure you don't accidentally go to the main UBC campus 😃

Hi #NeurIPS2024! 1- Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization: jalammar.github.io/assets/neurips… (Click on a point to see the paper on the website) Uses cohere models and Leland McInnes's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.

📣First joint CODI-CRAC workshop will take place with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou, China! Follow us on bsky 🫶🏻 codiworkshop.bsky.social Call for papers: sites.google.com/view/codi-crac… #emnlp #codiworkshop #nlp

Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Cross-Temporal Research at COLM 2025 on Oct 10 in Montreal 🇨🇦 LLMs are hindered in their understanding of time due to temporal biases, conflicting knowledge, and tokenization that fragments dates, leading to

See you in Vienna! #ACL2025NLP