Queer in AI
Sabine Weber & Emi Baylor
The Queer in AI social is an event for queer people and allies in NLP to share their experiences, network with others and discuss queer issues in research. The social will involve a mix of mini-talks, Q&A sessions and breakout discussions. All event information will remain confidential to respect the privacy and safety of participants. People of all identities, including allies, are invited to attend! All socials will be held in Queer in AI's gather.town. Please reach out to the organizers if you need accomodations to navigate gather.town! You can find more information about the event and the sign-in form here: https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/eacl-2021?authuser=0/
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Panel on Language Diversity and Language Games
Agata Savary & Aline Villavicencio. Carlos Ramisch & Kaja Dobrovoljc & Danka Jokic & Abigail Walsh & Vytautas Ožeraitis
This event is one of the initiatives taken by the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the EACL 2021 conference. The objectives are to:
1. propose concrete affirmative actions to increase language diversity at NLP conferences
2. raise awareness of the diversity of world languages via convivial social events (language games)
This event takes place in Zoom.
Pivoting from statistical to deep NLP for mid-career researchers
Sravana Reddy
Deep learning has become the de facto family of models for NLP. This change happened rapidly, and those of us whose training and experience was in statistical NLP have had to quickly learn new methods and ways of thinking. This social hour is to share stories and strategies around making that shift.
This event takes place in Zoom.
WiNLP
Antonis Anastasopoulos & Surangika Ranathunga
The event will include a panel discussion with a special focus on the issue of language diversity in NLP research, a writing workshop, and a networking and social hour. For those participating in the writing workshop, it will be helpful (but not required) to bring an extended abstract or other short research document you are working on.
This event takes place in Zoom.
NLP With Friends
Yanai Elazar & Abhilasha Ravichander & Elizabeth Salesky & Zeerak Waseem
The NLP with Friends social aims to provide a supportive and engaging environment for researchers to discuss their work. Our goal is to foster greater kinship between researchers around the globe, create a judgment-free forum in which to ask questions and give us all a chance to learn from each other – both successes and failures. Everyone is encouraged to attend!
This event takes place in Zoom.
Virtual cultural journey around Ukraine
Local Organizers & Grammarly
Curious to learn more about Ukraine, its language, and culture? Join the virtual presentation “Cultural journey around Ukraine” by Anna, a passionate storyteller and a tour guide from Ukraine. There will be ten sessions at different times during the conference to ensure you will be able to find a slot that suits you! Each attendee is welcome to join, no registration needed - just choose the time slot that is convenient for you and click on the (appropriate) Zoom link. Costs are covered by the conference.
This event takes place in Zoom.
UGCL: Undergraduates in Computational Linguistics
Sayan Sinha
UGCL aims to provide a platform for undergraduate students to discuss their research interests and draw a perspective regarding the current research inclination among budding researchers. Other than networking activities, the event would feature talks and QnA sessions with current grad students and corporate researchers. It intends to facilitate the attendees with advice and guidance on pursuing a career in research. Though this event is targeted towards undergrads, everyone broadly interested in pursuing a career in machine learning or linguistics is welcome. Kindly find more information at https://ugcl.github.io/.
This event takes place in Zoom.
LatinX in NLP
Khalil Mrini & Nedjma Ousidhoum & Meriem Beloucif & Asma Ben Abacha
This affinity social is aimed at LatinX individuals and Allies working on or interested in NLP with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin in a field that has been dominated by other regions.
This event takes place in Zoom.
Arabs in NLP
Samia Touileb & Ibrahim Abu Farha & Nizar Habash
Arabs in NLP is an affinity group for natural language processing (NLP) researchers, developers and students who are connected to the Arab World directly or indirectly, or who are interested in Arabic NLP or other NLP topics pertinent to the Arab World. The aim of this group is to provide a (virtual) space to meet, connect, communicate and network.
This event takes place in Zoom.
Interactive presentation on the Ukrainian language
Local Organizers & Grammarly
Join the Interactive presentation on the Ukrainian language with a quiz and prizes on April 22 at 18:00 (UTC+2).
This event takes place in Zoom.
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Nikolai Rozanov
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Dialogue and Interactive Systems".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Anne Lauscher
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Surabhi Kumari
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Machine Translation and Multilinguality".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Language Grounding to Vision
Grzegorz Chrupała
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Language Grounding to Vision".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
Diptesh Kanojia
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Marco Baroni
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Discourse and Pragmatics
Yufang Hou
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Discourse and Pragmatics".
This event takes place in Zoom.
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Alessandro Leite
Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP".
This event takes place in Zoom.