SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - THE 3RD MULTILINGUAL REPRESENTATION LEARNING (MRL) WORKSHOP
DECEMBER 7 2023, SINGAPORE (CO-LOCATED WITH EMNLP)
Contact: mrlw2023@gmail.com
Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/ws2023-mrl.html
Organizers:
David Ifeoluwa Adelani
Duygu Ataman
Chris Emezue
Omer Goldman
Hila Gonen
Benjamin Muller
Sebastian Ruder
Gözde Gül Şahin
Francesco Tinner
Genta Indra Winata
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Invited Speakers
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Orhan Firat, Google Deepmind
Katharina Kann, UC Boulder
Luke Zettlemoyer, Meta and University of Washington
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Sep.8, 2023.: Workshop Paper Due Date
Oct. 6, 2023: Notification of Acceptance
Oct. 18, 2023: Camera-ready papers due
Dec. 7, 2023: Workshop
Dec. 8-10, 2023: Main conference
(All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”))
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The 3rd MRL Workshop invites participants to share and discuss recent findings on multi-lingual representation learning methods and their application in different settings. The main objectives of the workshop are:
To construct and present a wide array of multi-lingual representation learning methods, including their theoretical formulation and analysis, practical aspects such as the application of current state-of-the-art approaches in transfer learning to different tasks or studies on adaptation into previously under-studied context;
To provide a better understanding on how the language typology may impact the applicability of these methods and motivate the development of novel methods that are more generic or competitive in different languages;
To promote collaborations in developing novel software libraries or benchmarks in implementing or evaluating multi-lingual models that would accelerate progress in the field.
Our ultimate goal is to support rapid development of NLP methods and tools that are applicable to a wider range of languages. By offering a medium of communication for research groups working on machine learning, linguistic typology, or real-life applications of NLP tasks in various languages, to share and discuss their recent findings.
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SUBMISSIONS
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Research papers:
We invite all potential participants to submit their novel research contributions in the related fields as long papers following the EMNLP 2023 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding the references, and an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the accepted papers). All accepted research papers will be published as part of our workshop proceedings and will be presented either through oral presentations or poster sessions.
Our research paper track will accept submissions through our own submission system available at https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/mrl2023
Extended abstracts:
Besides long paper submissions, we also invite previously published or ongoing and incomplete research contributions to our non-archival extended abstract track. All extended abstracts can use the same EMNLP template with a 2-page limit, excluding the bibliography. Extended abstracts can be submitted to the workshop submission system using the softconf link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/mrl2023.
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Shared Task
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MRL 2023 features a new shared task on Multi-task Multi-lingual Information Retrieval, which aims to provide a new evaluation benchmark for assessment of large scale representation learning models in a diverse set of under-represented languages. We invite all interested peers in getting in touch about participation by joining mrl-shared-task-2023@googlegroups.com and following the website at https://sigtyp.github.io/st2023-mrl.html.
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Awards and Prizes
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A best paper award and winners of the shared task will be presented at the workshop and will be offered monetary prizes. We also hope to make a number of scholarships available to interested students who need support to participate in the workshop.