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A brief reminder regarding EMNLP 2024 reviews! We are counting on our reviewers to make the conference a success, so thank to those who have submitted already — please submit your reviews ASAP!

We (a group of University of California students and faculty from 7 campuses, along with researchers from over 20 other institutions) are releasing an open letter in opposition to California SB-1047. Read the letter here: drive.google.com/file/d/1E2yDGX… In particular, our concerns are:

Quan Hongchan after wining a gold medal for her perfect dive that received 10's from all the judges

It will be impossible to find me in Bangkok but here is a possible mission if you choose to accept it: go say hi to Julie and check out her beautiful poster on modeling impossible languages!

🚨Exciting updates for #EMNLP2024! 1. Registration is now open! 2024.emnlp.org/registration/ 2. The hotel link is live, so book rooms now at the discount rate: 2024.emnlp.org/participants/ 3. Check out all the great workshops here: 2024.emnlp.org/program/worksh… See website for more updates!

🚨 We are hiring! 🚨 The ACL Rolling Review is looking for motivated individuals to join our team! If you're passionate about NLP and want to contribute to the community, apply now! Editorial Assistant - docs.google.com/document/d/1FG… Workflow Manager - docs.google.com/document/d/148…

New results about CoT! For the cogsci crowd: I think a lot to think about re why Chain of Thought is more useful to math/logic than other domains. For the perhaps niche-but-enthusiastic meta-analysis crowd: I hope we can be part of a trend towards more meta-analyses in NLP!

🚨List of accepted papers from the #EMNLP2024 Industry Track is out: 2024.emnlp.org/program/indust… With 334 submissions, we have set a new record and more than doubled the number from last year! 🚀 This year's acceptance rate was 36.53%

📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and Radboud University will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…

Isn't the program for keynote speakers super interesting? Join us in Miami next month! The early registration deadline is next Monday. Looking forward to the 29th edition of EMNLP 2025. It's gearing up to be a great meeting!

Thank you to those who participated in our recent all-member vote regarding our name change. The change is happening! We are: The Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics! Announcement 👉 naacl.org/posts/2024-10-…

Thank you to the amazing and brave volunteers behind this effort: publication chairs and anthology wizards! Get a head start on the papers you will get to see next week EMNLP 2025!

🚨#EMNLP2024 starts Monday! Program: 2024.emnlp.org/program/ - Nov11: Welcome Reception (18:30) - Nov12-14: 3 Keynotes+BoF sessions - Nov12: Opening Session (9:00) - Nov13: Panel session (14:30) - Nov13: Social Event (19:00) - Nov15-16: Workshops/Tutorials Details/local tips 🧵

It's finally happening, #EMNLP2024 starts tonight with the welcome reception. I'm looking forward to our biggest NLP gathering! DM in Whova if you're looking for research opportunities in my lab and/or faculty positions in our NLP dept MBZUAI EMNLP 2025

The biggest known collection for speech translation for 13 Indian languages is finally out via BhasaAnuvaad. With 44000 hours of audio and 17M translated text segments, we have pushed the boundary of what was available for Indian languages. This is just the very very beginning

📢 #EMNLP2024 is coming to a close with our awards and closing sessions today at 16:00-17:30! We will be announcing future conference info/venue and awards (not yet announced), so be sure to attend and hear these exciting announcements (and maybe pleasant surprises) in person!

Time for thank yous from the ongoing closing session at #EMNLP2024 🧵👇

Glad to have served with the EMNLP 2025 committe! Great team, great celebration! 🎉🎉

Paper by Zoey Liu & me: How do children learn the concept of negation? Empiricism suggests they can abstract it from concrete instances like "not red", "didn't work", or "don't want it". Nativism suggests abstract negation is an innate concept & simply associated with ...

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