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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 7d

Please note that #EMNLP2025 volunteer notifications have been sent. If you haven’t received yours, please check your spam folder or contact the chairs at [email protected] as some email addresses were entered incorrectly in the form

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

Shu-Kai Hsieh, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Pintu Lohar, Gareth Morlais, Rifki Afina Putri, Younes Samih, Nureman Sateemae, Johan Sjons, Bryan Tan, Asahi Ushio, Weihua Zheng, Liu Zhengyuan, Alice Oh, Jose Camacho-Collados 5/5

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

Co-organised with Junho Myung, Carla Perez-Almendros, Jiho Jin, Yi Zhou, Chenyang Lyu, Meriem Beloucif, Amr Keleg, Rodrigo Agerri, Vladimir Araujo, Naomi Baes, James Barry, Joanne Boisson, Nancy F. Chen, Christine de Kock, Aleksandra Edwards, Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Mohamed Fazli, Huda Hakami, 4/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

💻 GitHub repo (for more information): github.com/BLEnD-SemEva...
**Important dates**
- Sample data ready: 8 Aug 2025
- Eval: ~10–31 Jan 2026
- Paper submission: ~Feb 2026
- Workshop: Summer 2026 3/

GitHub - BLEnD-SemEval2026/SemEval-2026-Task-7: SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures

SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures - BLEnD-SemEval2026/SemEval-2026-Task-7

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

The task is evaluation-only & aims to assess models' ability to generalise to unseen loges contexts.
**Tracks**
1️⃣ SAQ: generate short answers in the target language.
2️⃣ MCQ: pick the culturally correct option for each region.
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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

Pleased to announce our #NLP SemEval Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages & Cultures.
We extend the BLEnD Benchmark to >30 language-culture pairs. [Our task is Junior-friendly, with live Q&A & tutorials.] 1/

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 19d

We've opened our Cardiff NLP mailing list, where we share weekly seminar and event announcements, research updates, job adverts, etc, to the wider #NLP community. You can sign up here: forms.gle/RudQ1N1uLyQU...

Sign Up for the CardiffNLP Mailing List

We (the CardiffNLP group) have a mailing list where we share weekly seminar and other event announcements, updates, job adverts, and more. People from other groups and institutions are welcome to join...

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 20d

To everyone in the #EMNLP2025 community, we are aware of the issue regarding delays in responses to visa requests, and are actively working to find a viable solution to the visa invitation letter issue.

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 2

#EMNLP2025 is offering Virtual Registration Subsidies for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.

Note that these are only available for participants who are NOT registering any paper.

To apply, please read the details here, and fill out the linked form: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/virtua...

Call for EMNLP 2025 Virtual Registration Subsidies

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 29

#EMNLP2025 is offering diversity and inclusion funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies.

To apply, please carefully read the requirements on this page, and follow the link that is provided there, by September 24, 2025: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/subsid...

Call for EMNLP 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our Cardiff #NLP group members and collaborators have several papers accepted at #EMNLP2025!🎉
Check out the list of accepted papers, with preprints now available for 👇🧵1/

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations on your #EMNLP2025 paper acceptances! You may apply for student volunteering opportunities until 20 Sep 2025.
**Please note that you can edit your previous response or submit a new one. We will consider your most recent submission when reviewing applications.**

EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 student volunteers is out:
2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...
Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026: forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi...
For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com
CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Speech and Language Processing

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 student volunteers is out:
2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...
Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026: forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi...
For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com
CC @a-lauscher.bsky.social @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social student volunteers is out:
2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...
Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026 : forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi...
For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 8

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting @christinenlp.bsky.social , who presented her work on 'Modelling the Language of Extremist Groups.' Thank you for visiting us!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 1

And our SemEval task won the best task award! 🥳
Co-led with Shamsuddeen Muhammad and Saif M. Mohammad. Thanks to all the team members!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you! Congrats to all of us! ☺️

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congrats to all of us! Thank you for your work on the paper @christinenlp.bsky.social ☺️

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our ✨BRIGHTER✨ paper won the a best resource paper award at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025!
Big thanks to all the team members!

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 27

I’ll also be part of the
@nlp4posimpact.bsky.social workshop panel discussion on Thurs.
Looking forward to meeting other #NLP researchers! :-)
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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 27

And ‪Naba Rizvi will be presenting:
📄"AUTALIC: A Dataset for Anti-AUTistic Ableist Language In Context"
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
📍 Session 3: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 1
🗓️ Monday, July 28 🕑 14:00–15:30📍 Hall A
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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 27

Also presenting:
📄BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
📍 Session 9: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 2
🗓️ Tue, July 29 🕑 14:00–15:30📍 Hall B
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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Jul 27

At #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP In Vienna this week!
I’ll be presenting:
📄 Building Better: Avoiding Pitfalls in Developing Language Resources when Data is Scarce
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
📍 Panel 5: Multilinguality & Language Diversity
🗓️ Wed, July 30 🕘 09:00–10:30📍 Hall N.2
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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨 Check out the Cardiff NLP group and collaborators' accepted papers at #ACL2025NLP #ACL2025 (Main, Findings, Demo, Workshops) and #CoNLL2025! 🎉📄

See you in Vienna next week! We're looking forward to connecting and sharing ideas with the #NLP community! 🌍

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