Our Call for Papers is out: mrqa.github.io/cfp We seek submissions in interpretability track, multilinguality track & regular research track. Please consider submitting your work! Submission deadline: **August 5** (August 27 if you have reviews from ACLRollingReview)

‼️ MRQA (at #emnlp2021) deadline extended to **Thursday, August 12** ‼️ (September 3 w/ ARR reviews) More info: mrqa.github.io/cfp We welcome submissions in interpretability track, multilinguality track & regular research track. Please consider submitting your work!

Congrats to all authors on acceptance to #EMNLP2021! If you have accepted papers in Machine Reading / Question Answering, consider submitting to the non-archival track of #MRQA workshop. Simply submit it through google form: tinyurl.com/mrqa-nonarc Deadline: September 3

After some delays due to onsite logistics, we are finally underway! Join us. Schedule at mrqa.github.io (expect some deviation due to the late start).

If you are attending MRQA 2021, ask us questions in our slido: sli.do/mrqa2021

Talking now: Reut Tsarfaty on Comprehensive and Inclusive Text Understanding. SOTA models beat "human" benchmarks. Does their performance on current QA tasks indeed resemble human-like understanding? And, are these reports attainable in languages that are different from English?

Talking now: Jonathan Clark on "Question Answering for All." How can we make QA more user-centric? This perspective influences what research questions we pursue, what datasets we built, and ultimately how useful systems built with our methodologies will be to real people.

Catch Yiming Cui's talk on Chinese Machine Reading Comprehension and Beyond! Covers 3 main topics in dealing with non-English MRC scenarios, including new models, benchmarks and paradigms.

Happening now: multilingual QA panel with Reut Tsarfaty, Yiming Cui, Eunsol Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer, Jon Clark, and Jordan Boyd-Graber!

Starting up again: join for Jonathan Berant's talk on "Is my QA model reasoning? Meaning representations and multi-task training for understanding QA models".

Speaking now: Marco Tulio Ribeiro talks about "Explanations and counterfactuals." Great perspective through the lens of counterfactuals - which counterfc are used to create explanation, how these counterfc are summarized, and what counterfc preds the explanation allows the user to make.

Join us on Zoom for the interpretability panel in 25 minutes! With Hanna Hajishirzi, Dieuwke Hupkes, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Michael Collins, and Dan Roth.

Missed the MRQA workshop at #emnlp2021? Recordings of invited talks and panels (multilingual QA and interpretable QA) are now available on our website! Link: mrqa.github.io/#program