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 ## Welcome to Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Meetings
 
-At EMNLP 2023, we continue the tradition of conducting birds-of-a-feather (or BoF) and Affinity Group Meeting sessions to help newbie researchers get in touch with other people working in the same areas. Here's a quick primer for people who haven’t attended such sessions before!
+At EMNLP 2024, we continue the tradition of conducting birds-of-a-feather (or BoF) and Affinity Group Meeting sessions to help newbie researchers get in touch with other people working in the same areas. Here's a quick primer for people who haven’t attended such sessions before!
 
 ## What do we hope to accomplish with BoF and Affinity Group Meeting sessions?
 
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 ## When are the BoF and Affinity Group meeting sessions happening?
 
+All BoF & Affinity Session will run Parallel with the Oral/Poster Sessions
 
-<table>
-  <tr style="background-color:#f1f2fa"><td><b>Date</b></td><td><b>Time</b></td><td><b>Room</b></td><td><b> Session   ID</b></td><td><b>Session Title</b></td><td><b>Session Chairs</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td>8-Dec</td><td>14:00-15:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>BOF-2</td><td>NLP on legal texts</td><td>Santosh Tokala</td></tr>
-<tr><td>8-Dec</td><td>16:00-17:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-3</td><td>[Open multilingual text collections under the umbrella of the EU Horizon HPLT project (https://hplt-project.org/)</td><td>Andrey Kutuzov</td></tr>
-<tr><td>8-Dec</td><td>16:00-17:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>BOF-5</td><td>NLP for Climate Change</td><td>Jingwei Ni</td></tr>
-<tr><td>8-Dec</td><td>17:30-19:30</td><td>Aquarius 3/4</td><td>AGM-1</td><td>Queer in AI social at EMNLP</td><td>Pranav A</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>9:00-10:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-4</td><td>EthioNLP</td><td>Teshome Ababu</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>11:00-12:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-6</td><td>Embeddings</td><td>Han Xiao</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>11:00-12:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>BOF-7</td><td>Recipes in Building Language Reasoners</td><td>Yiyuan Li and Wenting Zhao</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>11:00-12:30</td><td>Aquarius 4</td><td>BOF-14</td><td>Benchmarking LLMs for Low resource Languages</td><td>Firoj Alam</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>13:45-14:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-8</td><td>ACL Mentorship: Sharing learnings from this conference & identifying promising research directions</td><td>Mentors from ACL Mentorship: Zhijing Jin, Rada Mihalcea, Mohit Bansal, Yuntian Deng, and Others</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>13:45-14:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>BOF-9</td><td>Controlled/Constrained Text Generation</td><td>Allen Roush</td></tr>
-<tr><td>9-Dec</td><td>13:45-14:30</td><td>Aquarius 4</td><td>BOF-10</td><td>Arabic NLP</td><td>Khalil Mrini and Rawan N. Almatham</td></tr>
-<tr><td>10-Dec</td><td>9:00-10:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-11</td><td>Discourse & Pragmatics</td><td>Valentina Pyatkin, Elias Stengel-Eskin, and Janet Liu</td></tr>
-<tr><td>10-Dec</td><td>9:00-10:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>AGM-2</td><td>Christians@NLP</td><td>Philipp Heinisch</td></tr>
-<tr><td>10-Dec</td><td>11:00-12:30</td><td>Aquarius 1</td><td>BOF-12</td><td>Text Simplification and Readability</td><td>Fernando Alva Manchego</td></tr>
-<tr><td>10-Dec</td><td>11:00-12:30</td><td>Aquarius 2</td><td>BOF-13</td><td>Automatic Text Evaluation</td><td>Gisela Vallejo and Zhuohan Xie</td></tr>
-</table>
+### Tuesday, Nov 12
+11:00 - 12:30 LLMs for Embodied Agents 
+- Organizer: Manling Li
+- Room: Foster (Convention Center 2nd level)
 
-Attendees are free to carry forward the discussion after the BoF and Affinity Group Meeting sessions end (or even continue in the same room if it is available!).
+11:00 - 12:30 Law Law Land: Legal Language Meets Large Language Models 
+- Organizer: Santosh Tokala
+- Room: Johnson (Convention Center 2nd level)
+
+12:30 - 14:00 Large Multimodal Models for Biomedical Research 
+- Organizer: Tianyu Liu
+- Room: Miami Lecture Hall (Convention Center Level 2)
+
+14:00 - 15:30 LLM Agents for Acoustics and Continuous Signals 
+- Organizer: Huck Yang
+- Room: Foster (Convention Center Level 2)
+
+16:00 - 17:30 Southeast Asian NLP 
+- Organizer: Genta Winata
+- Room: Johnson (Convention Center Level 2)
+
+16:00 - 17:30 NLP for Structured Data 
+- Organizer: Vivek Gupta
+- Room: Miami Lecture Hall (Convention Center Level 2)
 
+### Wednesday, Nov 13
+10:30 - 12:00 Fostering Native and Cultural Inclusivity in LLMs 
+- Organizer: Firoj Alam
+- Room: Foster
 
-If you have any questions about the information listed in the schedule, please contact the D&I chairs via [email protected].
+10:30 - 12:00 NLP Tools for Community-Owned Religious Texts in Low-Resourced Languages 
+- Organizer: Inam Ullah
+- Room: Johnson
+
+### Thursday, Nov 14
+10:30 - 12:00 2112: The AI Odyssey 
+- Organizer: Prasson Bajpai
+- Room: Foster
+
+10:30 - 12:00 Embeddings, Reranker, Small LM for Better Search 
+- Organizer: Han Xiao
+- Room: Miami Lecture Hall
+
+More details can be found on the following Platforms: Underline and Whova.
+
+Attendees are free to carry forward the discussion after the BoF and Affinity Group Meeting sessions end (or even continue in the same room if it is available!).
 
 
 ## Additional Guidelines for Attendees