From 53b787138954d8c86e7c5a67425591b88966f86f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tiago Torrent Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:25:23 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update bof.md Initial commit BoF --- _pages/program/bof.md | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/_pages/program/bof.md b/_pages/program/bof.md index 0aaa2b7..91165b2 100644 --- a/_pages/program/bof.md +++ b/_pages/program/bof.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ sidebar: ## 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? @@ -35,30 +35,54 @@ At EMNLP 2023, we continue the tradition of conducting birds-of-a-feather (or Bo ## When are the BoF and Affinity Group meeting sessions happening? +All BoF & Affinity Session will run Parallel with the Oral/Poster Sessions - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
DateTimeRoom Session IDSession TitleSession Chairs
8-Dec14:00-15:30Aquarius 2BOF-2NLP on legal textsSantosh Tokala
8-Dec16:00-17:30Aquarius 1BOF-3[Open multilingual text collections under the umbrella of the EU Horizon HPLT project (https://hplt-project.org/)Andrey Kutuzov
8-Dec16:00-17:30Aquarius 2BOF-5NLP for Climate ChangeJingwei Ni
8-Dec17:30-19:30Aquarius 3/4AGM-1Queer in AI social at EMNLPPranav A
9-Dec9:00-10:30Aquarius 1BOF-4EthioNLPTeshome Ababu
9-Dec11:00-12:30Aquarius 1BOF-6EmbeddingsHan Xiao
9-Dec11:00-12:30Aquarius 2BOF-7Recipes in Building Language ReasonersYiyuan Li and Wenting Zhao
9-Dec11:00-12:30Aquarius 4BOF-14Benchmarking LLMs for Low resource LanguagesFiroj Alam
9-Dec13:45-14:30Aquarius 1BOF-8ACL Mentorship: Sharing learnings from this conference & identifying promising research directionsMentors from ACL Mentorship: Zhijing Jin, Rada Mihalcea, Mohit Bansal, Yuntian Deng, and Others
9-Dec13:45-14:30Aquarius 2BOF-9Controlled/Constrained Text GenerationAllen Roush
9-Dec13:45-14:30Aquarius 4BOF-10Arabic NLPKhalil Mrini and Rawan N. Almatham
10-Dec9:00-10:30Aquarius 1BOF-11Discourse & PragmaticsValentina Pyatkin, Elias Stengel-Eskin, and Janet Liu
10-Dec9:00-10:30Aquarius 2AGM-2Christians@NLPPhilipp Heinisch
10-Dec11:00-12:30Aquarius 1BOF-12Text Simplification and ReadabilityFernando Alva Manchego
10-Dec11:00-12:30Aquarius 2BOF-13Automatic Text EvaluationGisela Vallejo and Zhuohan Xie
+### 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 emnlp2023diversity@googlegroups.com. +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