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EMNLP 2022
December 7 - 11, 2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing is a leading conference in the area of natural language processing and artificial intelligence. This year, Amazon has more than 40 papers at EMNLP, covering familiar topics like natural-language understanding and question answering, as well as disparate subjects such as as robotics and geospatial learning.

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EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP
December 7
EvoNLP, the First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP, a forum to discuss the challenges posed by the dynamic nature of language in the specific context of the current NLP paradigm, dominated by language models.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp
Class incremental learning for intent classification with limited or no old data
Debjit Paul, Daniil Sorokin, Judith Gaspers
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Massively Multilingual NLU
December 7
The vision of this workshop is to help propel natural language understanding technology into the 50-language, 100-language, and even the 1,000-language regime, both for production systems and for research endeavors. Learn more in our blog post.

Amazon speakers: Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Amazon organizers: Jack FitzGerald, Kay Rottmann, Charith Peris, Christopher Hench

Website: https://mmnlu-22.github.io
EMNLP 2022 Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT22)
December 7 - December 8
Several EASIER partners are involved in the organization of this academic conference, which builds on a series of annual workshops and conferences on statistical machine translation, going back to 2006. This year, for the first time, a shared tasks on SL machine translation (WMT-SLT 22) will be organized.
Analyzing the use of influence functions for instance-specific data filtering in neural machine translation
Tsz Kin Lam, Eva Hasler, Felix Hieber
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
Embarrassingly easy document-level MT metrics: How to convert any pretrained metric into a document-level metric
Giorgos Vernikos, Brian Thompson, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM)
December 7 - December 11
The Second Version of Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop 2022 workshop will be held as part of EMNLP, December 7-11, 2022. It is endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN).
Task-driven augmented data evaluation
Olga Golovneva, Pan Wei, Khadige Abboud, Charith Peris, Lizhen Tan, Haiyang Yu
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
Are abstractive summarization models truly ‘abstractive’? An empirical study to compare the two forms of summarization
Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing
December 8
The NLLP community aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the legal domain who work on methods and applications of Natural Language Processing by focusing on legal text and text with legal significance.

Website: https://nllpw.org/workshop
Towards cross-domain transferability of text generation models for legal text
Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Kasturi Bhattacharjee, Rashmi Gangadharaiah
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning
December 8
This workshop aims to bring together the research community consisting of scientists studying different aspects in multilingual representation learning, currently the most promising approach to improve the NLP in low-resource or underrepresented languages, and provide the rapidly growing number of researchers working on the topic with a means of communication and an opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas.
Zero-shot cross-lingual counterfactual detection via automatic extraction and prediction of clue phrases
Asahi Ushio, Danushka Bollegala
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP)
December 8
The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2022) at EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp2022/
Cross-lingual transfer for low-resource Arabic language understanding
Khadige Abboud, Olga Golovneva, Christopher DiPersio
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Novel Ideas in Learning-to-Learn through Interaction (NILLI)
December 8
This interdisciplinary research topic unifies research paradigms of lifelong learning, natural language processing, embodied learning, reinforcement learning, robot learning and multi-modal learning towards building interactive and interpretable AI.
Multimodal contextualized plan prediction for embodied task completion
Mert Inan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Spandana Gella, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
2022
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing

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