EACL
MALTA
St. Julian’s - March 17-22

The 18th Conference of the European Chapterof the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Conference Information
Message from the General Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Message from the Program Chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Message from the Local Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Organizing Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Senior Program Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Conference Organizers & Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Anti-Harassment Policy

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Meal Info
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hotel Restaurants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Welcome Reception

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Invited Talks

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Karen Spärck Jones Award Lecture

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Main Conference Overview
Registration, Welcome Reception Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day 1 Main Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day 2 Main Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day 3 Main Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day 4 Tutorials & Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Day 5 Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Program Overview by Hotel

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Radisson Blu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Corinthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Radisson Blu to Corinthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Sponsorship

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Conference Information
Message from the General Chair
Welcome to the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. EACL is the flagship European conference dedicated to European and international researchers,
covering a wide spectrum of research in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
Organizing a scientific conference of the prestige and size of EACL is a great honor, a great responsibility, and a great challenge. The challenges started right at the beginning. When I accepted the invitation
to be general chair, even after the program chairs Yvette Graham and Matt Purver accepted, we didn’tknow where the conference would be located. Eventually, we settled on Malta, a wonderful island in the
Mediterranean with lovely weather in March. Well, putting it in March was the next challenge as the conference dates were moved backwards a couple of times, turning the entire organization of the conference
into a race against time.
Another big challenge was the joint effort of all ⇤ ACL 2024 conferences to streamline the review
process by moving it completely to ACL Rolling Review. While there had been some attempts to integrate
ARR into the conference reviewing process, 2024 will be the year where we see whether it actually works.
I’d like to thank Yvette and Matt for being so brave to chair the first conference in 2024 adopting ARR only.
I’d also like to thank the General Chairs of NAACL 2024 and ACL 2024, Katrin Erk and Claire Gardent,
and their respective PC chairs to join the effort. Without the ARR team this could not have worked out,
namely the ARR Editors in Chief, Mausam, Viviane Moreira, Vincent Ng, Lilja Øvrelid, Thamar Solorio,
and Jun Suzuki were indispensable for making this happen.
For me it started all with Roberto Basili and Preslav Nakov, the 2023 and 2024 Presidents of EACL,
asking me whether I’d like to serve as general chair for EACL 2024 – thanks for having trusted me to
manage the organization of the conference. After Yvette Graham and Matt Purver accepted the role of PC
chairs, I knew that I wouldn’t have to worry anymore about the scientific program. A big thanks to Yvetteand Matt! Behind the scenes Jennifer Rachford (ACL Event Manager) and her team, in particular Megan
Haddad and Jon M. Dorsey, made the impossible happen. Jenn does what we scientists are not good at,and then a lot more. I don’t know how we could have run EACL 2024 without her. Roberto Basili, Preslav
Nakov, the EACL board, and David Yarowsky (ACL treasurer) provided me with information, advice andfeedback whenever I needed it. A great thanks also goes to the EACL 2024 workshop chairs, Nafise
Moosavi and Zeerak Talat! Because EACL is the first conference in 2024, they spearheaded the ⇤ ACL
joint call for workshop proposals. They worked with an extremely tight timeline, created a very interesting
workshop program and had the organizers of 19 workshops under control. Very impressive, Nafise and
Zeerak!

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A special thanks goes to Claudia Borg from the University of Malta. Claudia was instrumental forthe success of the conference dealing with all sorts of local issues. She helped us selecting the venue,
connected us with local event organizers, was part of the volunteer program, and made sure that visas were
issued to participants who needed them. Claudia is great!
And then . . .
• The tutorial chairs, Sharid Loáicga and Mohsen Mesgar, worked together with the tutorial chairsof all ⇤ ACL conferences to review tutorial proposals and select some for EACL 2024.
• The demonstration chairs, Orphée de Clercq and Nikolaos Aletras, created the demo program for
EACL 2024.
• The student research workshop chairs, Neele Falk, Sara Papi, and Mike Zhang, along with theirfaculty advisors Parisa Kordjamshidi and Steffen Eger, took care about the next generation of NLP
researchers.
• The publication chairs, Gözde Gül Sahin and Danilo Croce, did a tremendous job in getting all thepapers into a nice shape worthy of the European flagship conference in Computational Linguistics.
• The handbook chair, Marco Polignano, helped us to navigate through the program so that wewouldn’t miss any interesting presentation.
• The sponsorship chairs, Daniel Dahlmeier and Pasquale Minervini, worked together with the ACL
sponsorship director Chris Callison-Burch to make EACL 2024 the ends meet in economicallychallenging times.
• The diversity and inclusion chairs, Hanan Al Darmaki, Sabine Weber, and Maciej Ogrodniczuk,ensured that researchers who are not from the global north can join our conference, in person or
virtually. They also kicked off an amazing set of D&I events at the conference.
• The publicity chairs, Miryam de Lhoneux, Sungho Jeon, and Yuval Pinter, spread the word – andalso pictures – through social media platforms.
• The website chairs, Mladen Karan and Wei Zhao, created a beautiful webpage. They were super
responsive. Thanks a lot for the good work!
• The local ambassador, Max Bartolo, provided us with information on Malta early on. Talk to him
for food options, bars, excursions, fun stuff to do!
• The ethics chairs, Annemarie Friedrich and Anne Lauscher, helped us to solve difficult ethicalissues with the papers.
• The student volunteer chairs, Claudia Borg, Desmond Eliott, and Juntao Yu, went through many
applications, selected the student volunteers, and assigned them their tasks.
• The visa chairs Claudia Borg and Yufang Hou helped conference participants to obtain their visas.
• The Technical Infrastructure Chairs, Wei Liu and Sungho Jeon, enabled us to navigate through theprogram with ease via MiniConf and to discuss via Rocket.Chat.
• The entire program committee, senior area chairs, area chairs, reviewers, and best paper committee,
was essential for ensuring our high-quality scientific program.
• We couldn’t run our conference without our student volunteers. A big thanks to all of them!

2• Finally, I’d like to thank our invited speakers, Mirella Lapata and Hinrich Schütze, and the Karen
Spärck Jones Award Winner 2023, Hongning Wang, for delivering inspiring keynote speeches.
The online side of our hybrid conference was provided by Underline (Sol Rosenberg, Damira Mrsic,
and their team), who also provided us with support for managing the entire conference.
I would like to thank our sponsors for funding the conference, providing subsidies for students andfinancing the diversity and inclusion initiative.
Enjoy EACL 2024! Insellimkom,
Michael Strube
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
EACL 2024 General Chair

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Message from the Program Chairs
Welcome to the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(EACL) to take place in Malta. As with last year, the conference is being held in a hybrid mode, with bothaudiences and presenters able to attend online. Presentation videos, slides and posters will all be available
online to make the experience as good as possible. However, we’re very happy to see that most presentersin oral and poster sessions are opting to be there in-person, so we’re looking forward to an interactive andexciting conference.

Submission and Acceptance
EACL 2024 was the first *ACL Conference to accept all submissions via ACL Rolling Review (ARR).
This brought some significant advantages: a consistent system across *ACL conferences, as well as theexperience and assistance of the ARR team, and of course the ability to revise and resubmit papers rather
than just being rejected out of hand.
However, this change does make it somewhat more difficult to calculate acceptance rates. Most papers
committed to EACL 2024 came from the ARR October 2023 cycle, and most papers in that cycle wereintended for EACL 2024; but some EACL papers came from other ARR cycles; and some papers in the
October 2023 cycle were intended for other, later conferences rather than EACL. Many authors indicatedtheir target when submitting to ARR, but not all; and some change their minds.
In the end we opted for the following approach: we take the pool of potential candidates as being papers
in the relevant ARR cycle that either selected EACL as a target, did not select any target conference, or
selected another target conference but then committed to EACL anyway; together with papers from other
ARR cycles that committed to EACL. We include those that withdrew after getting reviews, but not thosethat withdrew before or were desk-rejected.
In total, EACL 2024 ARR October cycle received 1,275 submissions, with a large portion (78%) being
long as opposed to short papers. 52 papers were desk rejected for various reasons (e.g. breaching the ACL
anonymity or multiple submission policy, significant formatting violations) and 17 were withdrawn by theauthors before reviews were received. 474 papers then committed to EACL 2024, of which we accepted
226 to the main conference, and a further 163 to the Findings of the ACL. The pool of potential candidates
as defined above numbered 1,114 papers, giving an overall acceptance rate of 20.3% to the main conference
and 14.5% to Findings. This is comparable to other recent *ACL conferences (EACL 2023 quoted 24.1%
and 17.2% respectively), but it’s hard to compare directly given such a significant change in the submission
process. The conference programme also features three papers from the Transactions of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (TACL) journal, and one from the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal.

Presentation Mode
From the resulting total of 230 papers accepted to the conference, we invited 144 to be presented orally,
with the others presenting in poster sessions. We made the decision on which papers would be invited fororal poster presentations based on several factors: recommendations by Senior Area Chairs (SACs) andmeta-reviewers about presentation mode and best paper prize potential, grouping of papers into thematic
sessions, and confirmation from authors that they planned to attend the conference in person. For TACL
and CL papers, the authors’ preference of presentation mode was used.
Authors of papers accepted to the Findings of the ACL could opt to present a poster, and 113 (69%)
chose to do so. We also gave oral paper presenters the option to present a poster, with 37 (25%) choosing
to do so; this gave a total of 232 posters being presented at the conference. All oral sessions are being held
as in-person plenary sessions (although with some online presenters), and all poster sessions are in-person
except one fully virtual poster session.

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Limitations Section
As in EACL 2023, and now standard practice in ARR, we required inclusion of a Limitations section,
including all major limitations of the work. As with past events, this is intended to discourage the practiceof hyping conclusions drawn in work published at EACL, sticking to better scientific practice.

Areas, Programme Committee Structure and Reviewing
We divided submissions into 24 distinct areas and asked authors to choose the most appropriate area tosubmit their work to. The three areas to receive the largest number of submissions were NLP Applications,
Resources and Evaluation, and Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP.
Senior members of the NLP community were directly invited to act as Senior Area Chair (SAC), with
2–3 SACs per area. Area Chairs (ACs) were then recruited partly from ARR’s existing pool, and partly
invited directly by SACs to sign up to ARR for the October cycle so they could act as Area Chairs for
EACL. In the ARR system, ACs assign themselves to areas and can specify a maximum load, ensuringthat ACs can reduce the number of papers they are responsible for at appropriate times; this results in ahigher number of ACs than is usual outside of the ARR system. In total, 485 ARR ACs signed up to the
October cycle 2023, while a total of 5,854 reviewers indicated availability to review in ARR October cycle.
Three reviewers and one AC were automatically assigned to each paper using ARR’s matching algorithm,
based on reviewers’ past publications and the maximum load set by reviewers and ACs.

Best Paper Awards
Following ACL policy, we set up a committee to decide the Best Paper Awards. The committee wasgiven 28 papers by the Program Chairs to consider, papers that were identified by at least one of the
program committee, SAC, AC or Reviewer as a possible best paper. These papers were anonymized via
black out of author information, links to code, and acknowledgements sections in the camera-ready papers.
The selected best papers and runners up will be announced at the conference.

Ethics Committee
We also set up an ethics committee, so that papers flagged by reviewers or ACs as having potential ethical concerns could be sent for separate ethics review. A small number of papers were accepted conditionalon final re-reviewing to check that outstanding concerns were dealt with in the final camera-ready paper;
we’re happy to confirm that all such papers were accepted.

Keynotes
We are delighted to include 2 Keynote talks in the plenary sessions:• Prof. Mirella Lapata: Prompting is *not* all you need! Or why Structure and Representations stillmatter in NLP• Prof. Hinrich Schütze: Quality Data for LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities for NLP
Furthermore, we include a lecture from the winner of this year’s Karen Spärck Jones Award:• Prof. Hongning Wang: Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or
Conflict?

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Thank YousEACL 2024 would not have happened without the help and support of the NLP community. So much of
the event relies on voluntary efforts with people very generously giving their time and energy. We would
like to acknowledge everyone involved, with a special thanks to:• EACL 2024 General Chair, Michael Strube, for leading the overall conference organization andproviding advice and support to the PCs and many others through the conference preparations;• Our 56 Senior Area Chairs, who did a fantastic job of managing the review process for theirindividual areas;• The 485 Area Chairs, who put in an enormous effort in as much as possible ensuring papers were
given the best consideration by reviewers;• All the reviewers, who very generously give up their time to this process;• The Best Paper Award Committee, and especially the chair Barbara Plank, with the difficult taskof choosing winners from the large number considered for this award;• Our Ethics Committee, especially the chairs Annemarie Friedrich and Anne Lauscher, for diligently checking and maintaining the high ethical standards we strive for at *ACL conferences;• Publicity Chairs, Miryam de Lhoneux, Sungho Jeon and Yuval Pinter, and Website Chairs Mladen
Karan and Wei Zhao, for managing our communications and fulfilling all requests sent so quickly;• Publications Chairs, Danilo Croce and Gözde Gül Şahin, and Handbook Chair Marco Polignano,for the many hours dedicated to producing our fine proceedings and handbook;• Jordan Zhang for invaluable assistance with building the conference schedule;• The ARR team, particularly Thamar Solorio, Lilja Øvrelid and Harold Rubio, for so much support
and advice during the review process;• Damira Mršić from Underline and the ACL’s Jennifer Rachford for their huge efforts to make
EACL a success both online and on-site.
Overall, everyone we came into contact with during the process was exceptionally professional and great
to work with, thank you all for this, it is so important!
We’re looking forward to a great EACL 2024, we hope you enjoy it and we look forward to seeing you
there.
Yvette Graham (Trinity College Dublin)
Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London & Jožef Stefan Institute)
EACL 2024 Programme Committee Co-Chairs

6Message from the Local Chair
Dear EACL2024 Participants,
It is with immense joy that I welcome you to the EACL2024 conference, held in the heart of theMediterranean - Malta, an island nation celebrated for its vibrant diversity and intricate history.
We are brought together by a common passion, that of processing language. We are in a privileged
position to understand the power of language, that of connecting people. But one of the most fascinating
aspects of human language is its diversity. Take Maltese as an example: a Semitic language, written in
Latin script, with mixed influences from Arabic, Italian and English. Since becoming an official European
language, Maltese has been given more visibility, facilitating the creation of digital resources. Yet it is stilla low-resource language, ranking lowest amongst all official EU languages.
In the era of LLMs and GPUs, the opportunity to work with a low-resource language like Maltese is
not just about finding creative ways of processing the language, but becomes an interesting dive into its
roots and understanding how history shaped it over time. It goes beyond racing for better accuracy and F1scores. Instead, we try to find ways of connecting the language of today with the roots of its past.
As we embark on this exciting week, I invite you to immerse yourself not only in the groundbreaking
research and discussions but also in the rich tapestry of Maltese culture and language. Let the diversity ofMalta inspire you, spark your curiosity, and enrich your experience during your stay.
I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the local organization team, particularly Stephanie Abela Tickle andher colleagues at Meet360. Their dedication and hard work have been pivotal in bringing this conference
to life. I also thank my colleagues and students at the University of Malta for their steering work.
In closing, I hope that EACL2024 will be a source of inspiration and collaboration for all.
M erh̄ba f 0 M alta!
Claudia Borg
University of Malta
Local Chair, EACL 2024

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Organizing Committee
General Chair
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Program Chairs
Yvette Graham, Trinity College Dublin
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London & Jožef Stefan InstituteWorkshop Chairs
Nafise Moosavi, University of Sheffield
Zeerak Talat, Simon Fraser University
Tutorial Chairs
Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg
Mohsen Mesgar, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
Demonstration Chairs
Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield
Orphee de Clercq, Ghent University
Student Research Workshop Chairs
Neele Falk, University of Stuttgart
Sara Papi, University of Trento & Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Mike Zhang, IT University Copenhagen
Faculty Advisors to Student Research Workshop Chairs
Steffen Eger, University of Bielefeld
Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University
Publication Chairs
Danilo Croce, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Gözde Gül Şahin, Koç University
Handbook Chair
Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Sponsorship Chairs
Daniel Dahlmeier, SAP
Pasquale Minervini, University of Edinburgh

8Diversity and Inclusion Chairs
Hanan Al Darmaki, MBZUAI
Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
Sabine Weber, VDI/VDE Innovation
Publicity Chairs
Miryam de Lhoneux, KU Leuven
Sungho Jeon, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Yuval Pinter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Website Chairs
Mladen Karan, Queen Mary University of London
Wei Zhao, University of Aberdeen
Local Chair
Claudia Borg, University of Malta
Local Ambassador
Max Bartolo, Cohere
Ethics Chairs
Annemarie Friedrich, University of Augsburg
Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg
Student Volunteer Chairs
Claudia Borg, University of Malta
Desmond Eliott, University of Copenhagen
Juntao Yu, Queen Mary University of London
Visa Chairs
Claudia Borg, University of Malta
Yufang Hou, IBM Research Ireland
Megan Haddad, ACL Office9

Senior Program Committee
Discourse and Pragmatics
Yulia Grishina, Amazon Development Center Germany
Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin
Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London
Chloé Clavel, Télécom ParisTech and Télécom Paris
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
David Traum, University of Southern California
Summarization
Maria Liakata, Queen Mary University London
Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Generation
Shujian Huang, Nanjing University
Angela Fan, Facebook
Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Ethics and NLP
Saif M. Mohammad, National Research Council Canada
Cagri Coltekin, University of Tuebingen
Kai-Wei Chang, University of California
Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University
Roi Reichart, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Information Extraction
Qipeng Guo, Shanghai AI Laboratory
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Zhiyuan Liu, Tsinghua University
Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester
Eugene Agichtein, Amazon and Emory University

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Dieuwke Hupkes, Facebook
Elena Voita, FAIR at Meta AI and University of Amsterdam
Resources and Evaluation
Valerio Basile, University of Turin
Joel R. Tetreault, Dataminr
Speech and Multimodality
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center
Boyang Li, Nanyang Technological University
Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Yonatan Bisk, Meta and Carnegie Mellon University
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam
Emily Prud’hommeaux, Boston College
Machine Learning for NLP
Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
Nikolaos Pappas, AWS AI Labs
Colin Cherry, Google
Machine Translation
François Yvon, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University
Multilinguality and Language Diversity
Goran Glavaš, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University
Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
NLP Applications
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Apple
Karin Verspoor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Shuai Wang, Amazon
Question Answering
Alessandro Moschitti, Amazon Alexa AI
Yansong Feng, Peking University

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Wenpeng Yin, Pennsylvania State University
Semantics - Lexical
Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University
Chris Brew, Lexis Nexis
Semantics - Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and other areas
Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University
Tushar Khot, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis and Argument Mining
Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University
David Vilares, Universidade da Coruña
Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
Ryan Cotterell, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Francis M. Tyers, Indiana University
Syntax - Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Bernd Bohnet, Google Deep Mind
Miryam De Lhoneux, KU Leuven

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Conference Organizers & Vendors
On behalf of the ACL/EACL I would like to thank Claudia Borg for the Malta recommendation and Bidalong with Stephania Abela Tickle from Meet 360 Events for all her help and support with contracting thevenue and vendors.

ACL Onsite Team

Megan Haddad, Event Assistant
Sally Stevenson, Support Staff

Underline Staff

Damira Mrsic
Borna Bevanda
Mateo Antonic
Rafael-Leopold Grabovic

Lee Hartman & Sons
Jon Dorsey, AV Director
Trevor Laffoon, AV TechStudio 7, AV Equipment, Posters, & Exhibitor Supplies
Radisson Blu
Corinthia St. George’s Bay
Thank you to the entire Committee for Volunteering their hard work and time to make this conference
possible.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Rachford
ACL Director of Events/Business Manager

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2Anti-Harassment Policy

EACL2024 adheres to the ACL’s code of ethics, ACL’s anti-harassment policy, and ACL’s code of conduct. Violations of the code of ethics as well as complaints raised under the anti-harassment policy should
be brought to the Professional Conduct Committee, who can be reached during the conference via the
PCC channel in RocketChat, or you may also contact any current member of the EACL Executive Board.
Please be assured that if you approach the PCC or EACL board members, your concerns will be kept instrict confidence, and we will consult with you on any actions taken.
Shortcuts:• ACL’s code of ethics:
https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics• ACL’s anti-harassment policy:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy• ACL’s code of conduct:
https://2024.eacl.org/code/• Professional Conduct Committee:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Professional_Conduct_Committee• EACL Executive Board:
https://eacl.org/general/#officers

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Ethics Policy
EACL 2024 adheres to the ACM’s code of ethics, the preamble of which is given below. Computing professionals’ actions change the world. To act responsibly, they should reflect upon the wider impacts of
their work, consistently supporting the public good. The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct("the Code") expresses the conscience of the profession. The Code is designed to inspire and guide theethical conduct of all computing professionals, including current and aspiring practitioners, instructors,
students, influencers, and anyone who uses computing technology in an impactful way. Additionally, theCode serves as a basis for remediation when violations occur. The Code includes principles formulated
as statements of responsibility, based on the understanding that the public good is always the primaryconsideration. Each principle is supplemented by guidelines, which provide explanations to assist computing professionals in understanding and applying the principle. Section 1 outlines fundamental ethicalprinciples that form the basis for the remainder of the Code. Section 2 addresses additional, more specificconsiderations of professional responsibility. Section 3 guides individuals who have a leadership role,
whether in the workplace or in a volunteer professional capacity. Commitment to ethical conduct is required of every ACM member, ACM SIG member, ACM award recipient, and ACM SIG award recipient.
Principles involving compliance with the Code are given in Section 4. The Code as a whole is concernedwith how fundamental ethical principles apply to a computing professional’s conduct. The Code is not analgorithm for solving ethical problems; rather it serves as a basis for ethical decision-making. When thinking through a particular issue, a computing professional may find that multiple principles should be taken
into account, and that different principles will have different relevance to the issue. Questions related tothese kinds of issues can best be answered by thoughtful consideration of the fundamental ethical principles, understanding that the public good is the paramount consideration. The entire computing profession
benefits when the ethical decision-making process is accountable to and transparent to all stakeholders.
Open discussions about ethical issues promote this accountability and transparency.

The full policy is available at: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

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Meal Info

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Meal Info
Overview
Breakfast

Mar 18 - Mar 22
For those who booked inside the EACL Room Block Breakfast is included. Please check with hotel forhours of operation.
For those who booked outside the block check with the hotel for options.

BreaksMar 18 - Mar 22
AM & PM Coffee Breaks See details agenda for times
Located in the Radisson Blu Kontiki Level 1

Lunch

Mar 18 - 20
Lunch is included - Located at the Radisson Blu Kontiki Level 1
See detailed agenda for times
Mar 21 - 22 - On your own

DinnerMar 18, 20, 21, 22 - On your own

Social Events

Mar 17, 18:00 - 20:30 - Welcome Reception
Mar 19, 19:00 - 22:00 - Social Event Dinner (Doors open at 18:30)

Our primary goal for EACL 2024 is to make it an exceptional annual meeting. We want this conference
to be remembered not just for the outstanding lineup of speakers and the impressive conference venue
but also for the vibrant Social Programs for our Full Conference Attendees. Our aim is to provide an

16Meal Infoexperience that goes beyond the academic sessions, ensuring that every delegate gets a taste of the best
we have to offer. Allow us to provide you with a detailed glimpse into the exciting activities and events
that we have in store to enhance networking opportunities and foster a strong sense of community among
participants.

Hotel Restaurants

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Welcome Reception

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Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception - Sunday 17th, March, 2024

To set the stage for an incredible conference experience, we will commence with a grand Welcome Reception. This event will serve as a warm and inviting gathering where delegates can connect with fellow
attendees, distinguished speakers, and the dedicated organizers. It will provide an informal and friendly
atmosphere for participants to socialize, exchange ideas, and build new professional relationships rightfrom the start.
Venue: Radisson Blu St. Julian’s Malta
Time: 18.00 - 20.30
Dress code: Smart Casual
Full Conference Registration required to attend. Guest tickets can be purchased, see onsite registration
solutions or you can add to your conference registration.
Conf. Badge required for entrance - Drink tickets will be in the badge holder when you collect yourconference badge at check in.

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Social Event

Conference Social Dinner - Tuesday 19th, March, 2024
Undoubtedly, one of the most highly anticipated events is our Social Event. Captivating venue, Food stations with scrumptious culinary delights, accompanied by live local entertainment and followed with a DJ
and Dancing. The night promises to captivate and engage. This evening will serve as the perfect setting
to celebrate the achievements of the conference and create lasting memories in the company of esteemed
colleagues and newfound friends.
Venue: Corinthia St. George Bay Hotel, St. Julian’s Malta
Time: 18:30 - Doors Open19.00 - 22.00 - Dinner, Entertainment and Dancing
Dress code: Casual
Full Conference Registration required to attend. Guest tickets can be purchased, see onsite registration
solutions or you can add to your conference registration.
Conf. Badge required for entrance - Drink tickets will be given at the Social Event check tables.

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Invited Talks

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Invited Talks

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Invited Talks

Quality Data for LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities for NLP

Hinrich Schütze

Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 – Time: from 09:00 to 10:00 – Room: Radisson
Abstract: That the recent LLM breakthroughs are solely due to scaling is a myth. Many difficult research problems had to be solved to make models like GPT4 and Mixtral possible. One of those difficult
research problems is data quality. Data quality is a great challenge for NLP researchers with many opportunities for innovation and impact on current generative AI developments. I will focus on two examples
in my talk: quality data for training a highly multilingual language model and quality data for instruction
tuning.
Bio: Hinrich Schuetze is Professor at the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich. His lab is engaged in research on multilinguality, representation learning and linguistic analysis of
NLP models. His research has been funded by NSF, the German National Science Foundation and theEuropean Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant), inter alia. Hinrich is coauthor of two well-known
textbooks (Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing and Introduction to Information Retrieval), a fellow of HessianAI, ELLIS (the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
and ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) and (co-)awardee of several best paper awards andthe ACL 2023 25-year test of time award.

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Invited Talks

Prompting is *not* all you need! Or why Structure andRepresentations still matter in NLP

Mirella Lapata

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Wed, March 20, 2024 – Time: from 14:45 to 15:45 – Room: Radisson
Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the rise of increasingly larger and more sophisticated language
models (LMs) capable of performing every task imaginable, sometimes at (super)human level. In thistalk, I will argue that there is still space for specialist models in today’s NLP landscape. Such models canbe dramatically more efficient, inclusive, and explainable. I will focus on two examples, opinion summarization and crosslingual semantic parsing and show how these two seemingly unrelated tasks can beaddressed by explicitly learning task-specific representations. I will show how such representations can befurther structured to allow search and retrieval, evidence-based generation, and cross-lingual alignment.
Finally, I will discuss why we need to to use LLMs for what they are good at and remove the need forthem to do things that can be done much better by smaller models.
Bio: Mirella Lapata is professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to understand, reason with, and generate
natural language. She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Spärck Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, the ACL, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best paper awards in leading
NLP conferences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research,
the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group thatorganizes EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant, a Royal Society Wolfson
Research Merit Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship.

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Karen Spärck Jones Award Lecture23

Karen Spärck Jones Award Lecture

Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition:
Symbiosis or Conflict?

Hongning Wang

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Mon, March 18, 2024 – Time: from 09:30 to 10:30 – Room: Radisson
Abstract: he advent of generative AI technology produces transformative impact on the content creation landscape, offering alternative approaches to produce diverse, good-quality content across media,
thereby reshaping the ecosystems of online content creation and publishing, but also raising concerns
about market over-saturation and the potential marginalization of human creativity. Our recent work introduces a competition model generalized from the Tullock contest to analyze the tension between humancreators and generative AI. Our theory and simulations suggest that despite challenges, a stable equilibrium between human and AI-generated content is possible. Our work contributes to understanding thecompetitive dynamics in the content creation industry, offering insights into the future interplay between
human creativity and technological advancements in generative AI.
Bio: Dr. Hongning Wang is now an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was the Copenhaver Associate Professor in the Departmentof Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD degree in computer science at the
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 2014. His research generally lies in the intersection among
machine learning and information retrieval, with a special focus on sequential decision optimization andcomputational user modeling. His work has generated over 100 research papers in top venues in data
mining and information retrieval areas. He is a recipient of 2016 National Science Foundation CAREER
Award, 2020 Google Faculty Research Award, and SIGIR’2019 Best Paper Award.

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Main Conference Overview

Registration, Welcome Reception Day
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Registration & Welcome Receptions (Radisson Blu Hotel)
13:00 - 20:30
18:00 - 20:30

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)
Welcome Reception (Radisson Kontini Terrace Level 1)25

Main Conference Program (Detailed Program)Day 1 Main Conference
Monday, March 18, 2024
Main Conference Day 1 Overview (Radisson Blu Hotel)
Check the latest program updates online: https://2024.eacl.org/program/main/
07:30 - 17:00

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)

09:00 - 10:30

Session 1: Opening Session (Radisson Ballroom Level 2)
09:00 - Opening Remarks & Presidential Address
09:30 - Karen Spärck Jones Award Lecture - Dr. Hongning Wang “Human vs.
Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?”

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break/Exhibits (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2: Oral Presentation

Machine Learning for NLP
Factual Content in NLP
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

14:00 - 15:30

Session 3: Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP
Discourse and Syntactic Parsing
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Multimodality and Language Grounding toPosters, Demos
Vision, Robotics and Beyond
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

16:00 - 17:30

Session 4 Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Information Extraction
Linguistic Theory and Insights
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Opinion, Sentiment and Emotion
Posters, DemosMarie Louise 2 (Level 7)
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))26

Main Conference Program (Detailed Program)Day 2 Main Conference
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Main Conference Day 2 Overview (Radisson Blu Hotel)
Check the latest program updates online: https://2024.eacl.org/program/main/
08:30 - 17:00

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)

09:00 - 10:00

Session 5: Keynote - Hinrich Schütze: “Quality Data for LLMs: Challenges
and Opportunities for NLP” (Radisson Ballroom Level 2)

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

10:30 - 12:00

Session 6: Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Sentence-level Semantics
Multilingual Issues
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
NLP Applications
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
12:00 - 13:00

Lunch break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

13:00 - 13:45

Business Meeting (Carlson Ballroom - Level 5)
Virtual Poster Session A (online in Gathertown)

14:00 - 15:30

Session 7: Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Question Answering
Multilinguality and Language Diversity
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Generation
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
15:30 -16:00

Coffee break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

16:00 - 17:30

Session 8: Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Multilinguality and Language Diversity
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Summarization
Posters, DemosMarie Louise 2 (Level 7)
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)
Student Research Workshop - Oral Sessions and Awards (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
19:00 - 22:00

Social Event (Corinthia St. George’s Bay Hotel - Ballroom Level & Poolside)
18:30 - Doors Open for Check-in
19:00 - Dinner Stations Open Enjoy the night27

Main Conference Program (Detailed Program)Day 3 Main Conference
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Main Conference Day 3 Overview (Radisson Blu Hotel)
Check the latest program updates online: https://2024.eacl.org/program/main/
08:30 - 17:00

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)

09:00 - 10:30

Session 9: Oral Presentations, Posters & Demo’s

Ethics and NLP
Machine Translation
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Semantics and Applications
Posters, DemosMarie Louise 2 (Level 7)
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

11:00 - 12:30

Session 10: Oral Presentation

Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLPResources and Evaluation
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
Computational Social Science andPosters, Demos
Cultural Analytics
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)
BoF / Affinity Groups - See detailed online agenda (Reading Ballroom (Level 3))
12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

14:00 - 15:45

Session 11 Panel & Keynote 3 (Radisson Ballroom Level 2)
14:00 - Virtual Poster Session B (online in Gathertown)
14:45 - Keynote - Mirella Lapata: “Prompting is not all you need! Or why
Structure and Representations still matter in NLP”

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee break (Kontiki Restaurant - Level 1)

16:15 - 17:30

Session 12: Closing Session (Radisson Ballroom Level 2)
16:15 - Best Paper Award
17:00 - Closing Remarks & Upcoming Conference Announcements

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Main Conference Program (Detailed Program)Day 4 Tutorials & Workshops
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Tutorial & Workshops Overview
Check the latest program updates online: https://2024.eacl.org/program/main/
Radisson Blu Hotel
General
08:30 - 17:00
10:30 - 11:00
15:30 - 16:00

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room

Tutorials
09:00 - 12:30
T5 - Language + Molecules
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)

14:00 - 17:30
T1 - Transformer-specific Interpretability
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)

Workshops - For Detailed Workshop Schedules go to Workshop Online ScheduleW#2 - CLPsych
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)
W#4 - SCI-CHAT
Marie Louise 2 (Level 7)

W#3 - LTEDI
Marie Louise 1 (Level 7)
W#1 - Codi
Reading Ballroom (Level 3)

Corinthia St. George’s Bay Hotel
General
08:00 - 17:00
10:30 - 11:00
15:30 - 16:00

Registration (Conference Center Registration Desk - Level 0)
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room

Tutorials
09:00 - 12:30
T4 - Item Response Theory for Natural
Language Processing
Fortress 2 Ballroom (Level -1)

14:00 - 17:30
T2 - LLMs for Low Resource Languages
in Multilingual, Multimodal and Dialectal
Settings
Fortress 2 Ballroom (Level -1)

09:00 - 17:30
T3 - Computational Modeling of Semantic Change - Fortress 1 Ballroom (Level -1)
Workshops - For Detailed Workshop Schedules go to Workshop Online ScheduleW#5 - UnImplicit
Bastion 1 (Level -1)
W#7 - CALD-pseudo
Gardjola 3 (Level -1)

W#6 - MOOMIN
Bastion 2 (Level -1)
W#8 - Computel-7
Gardjola 1 & 2 Ballroom (Level -1)

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Main Conference Program (Detailed Program)Day 5 Workshops
Friday, March 22, 2024
Workshops Overview
Check the latest program updates online: https://2024.eacl.org/program/main/
Radisson Blu Hotel
General
08:30 - 17:00
10:30 - 11:00
15:30 - 16:00

Registration (Radisson Lobby - Level 2)
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room
Coffee Break located outside Meeting RoomWorkshops - For Detailed Workshop Schedules go to Workshop Online ScheduleW#13 - PERSONALIZE
Carlson Ballroom (Level 5)
W#14 - LAW-XVIIIMarie Louise 2 Ballroom (Level 7)
W#9 - WNUT
Radisson Ballroom (Level 2)

W#12 - SIGTYPMarie Louise 1 Ballroom (Level 7)
W#11 - CASE
Reading Ballroom (Level 3)
W#10 - LaTeCH-CLfL
Claremont Ballroom (Level 2)

Corinthia St. George’s Bay Hotel
General
08:00 - 17:00
10:30 - 11:00
15:30 - 16:00

Registration (Conference Center Registration Desk - Level 0)
Coffee Break located outside Meeting Room
Coffee Break located outside Meeting RoomWorkshops - For Detailed Workshop Schedules go to Workshop Online ScheduleW#8 - Computel-7
Gardjola 1 & 2 Ballroom (Level -1)
W#16 - UncertaiNLP
Bastion 2 Ballroom (Level -1)
W#18 - SCALE-LLM
Fortress 1 Ballroom (Level -1)

W#15 - TEICAI
Bastion 1 Ballroom (Level -1)
W#17 - NLP4HR
Gardjola 3 Ballroom (Level -1)
W#19 - DravidianLangTech
Fortress 2 Ballroom (Level -1)

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Tutorials
Computational Modeling of Semantic Change
Pierluigi Cassotti, Francesco Periti, Stefano De Pascale, Haim Dubossarsky and Nina Tahmasebi

https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-eacl-tutorial/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Fortress 1
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - from 09:00 to 17:30
This tutorial provides an overview of current approaches, problems and challenges in the detection oflexical semantic change. At its core, computational modelling of semantic change consists of the following: (i) Modelling word meaning, typically using unsupervised methods applied to diachronic corpora; (ii)modelling meaning change, based on the results of the above; and evaluation. The tutorial will provide an
introduction to lexical semantic change and an overview of the resources available (corpora, pre-traineddiachronic models and data sets). We will highlight issues related to the creation and use of diachronic
corpora and different procedures for annotating data. We will then present the current state of the art inautomatic detection of LSC, provide a hands-on section on available systems and tools, and open the floor
for discussion on possible applications.

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Tutorials

Item Response Theory for Natural Language ProcessingJoão Sedoc, John P. Lalor, Pedro Rodriguez and Jose Hernandez-Orallo
https://eacl2024irt.github.io/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Fortress 2
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - from 09:00 to 12:30
This tutorial will introduce the NLP community to Item Response Theory (IRT). IRT is a method fromthe field of psychometrics for model and dataset assessment. IRT has been used for decades to build test
sets for human subjects and estimate latent characteristics of dataset examples. Recently, there has been an
uptick in work applying IRT to tasks in NLP. It is our goal to introduce the wider NLP community to IRT
and show its benefits for a number of NLP tasks. From this tutorial, we hope to encourage wider adoptionof IRT among NLP researchers. As NLP models improve in performance and increase in complexity,
new methods for evaluation are needed to appropriately evaluate performance improvements. In addition,
data quality continues to be important. Models exploitation of annotation artifacts, annotation errors,
and a misalignment between models and dataset difficulty can hinder an appropriate assessment of model
performance. As models reach and exceed human performance on certain tasks, it gets more difficult todistinguish between improvements and innovations and changes in scores due to chance. In this threehour, introductory tutorial, we will review the current state of evaluation in NLP, then introduce IRT asa tool for NLP researchers to use when evaluating their data and models. We will also introduce anddemonstrate the py-irt Python package for IRT model-fitting to help encourage adoption and facilitate
IRT use. While this methodology has been applied successfully to NLP applications, further community
exposure specifically for graduate students may provide a new methodological perspective. We aim to
make the tutorial interactive with hands-on Jupyter notebooks which will give concrete simple examples.

Outline:1. Evaluation in NLP
2. Introduction to IRT(a) Defining IRT Models(b) IRT Model Fitting(c) Introduction to py-irt
3. IRT in NLP(a) Building Test Sets
i. Model Evaluation
ii. Chatbot Evaluation(b) Training Dynamics
i. Example Mining
ii. Curriculum Learning(c) Model and Data Evaluation
i. Rethinking Leaderboards
ii. Features Related to Difficulty
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Language + Molecules
Carl Edwards, Qingyun Wang and Heng Ji
https://language-plus-molecules.github.io/posts/tutorial/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Radisson
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - from 09:00 to 12:30
Join us for this introductory tutorial targeted at NLP researchers with no knowledge of chemistry as
we explore cutting-edge new work in the integration of molecules and natural language, with exciting
applications such as developing new drugs, materials, and chemical processes. Climate change, accessto food and water, pandemics these words, when uttered, immediately summon to mind global challenges
with possible disastrous outcomes. Molecular solutions will be critical to addressing these global problems
on scales of complexity never-before-seen. However, they exist in extremely large search spaces, whichmakes AI tools a necessity. Excitingly, the chemistry field is posed to be substantially accelerated via
multimodal models combining language with molecules and drug structures. Stay tuned by following us
on Twitter @lang_plus_mols.

Outline:1. Background [60 min.](a) What is a molecule? [15 min.](b) Molecule Design using Language Models [15 min.](c) Drug Discovery – A Brief Primer [15 min.]2. Integrating Language with Molecules [95 min.](a) What does natural language have to offer? [15 min.](b) Do I want multimodality? [5 min.](c) Integrating Modalities [30 min.]i. Bi-Encoder Models (and beyond)ii. Joint Molecule-Language Models
iii. Model Differences(d) An Interactive Example - TBA Disease [20 min.](e) Applications [25 min.]3. Recent Trends and Conclusion [25 min.](a) LLMs as Scientific Agents [5 min.](b) Conclusion [10 min.]35

Tutorials

Transformer-specific Interpretability
Hosein Mohebbi, Jaap Jumelet, Michael Hanna, Afra Alishahi and Willem Zuidema
https://projects.illc.uva.nl/indeep/tutorial/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Radisson Ballroom
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - from 14:00 to 17:30
Transformers have emerged as dominant players in various scientific fields, especially NLP. However,their inner workings, like many other neural networks, remain opaque. In spite of the widespread use ofmodel-agnostic interpretability techniques, including gradient-based and occlusion-based, their shortcomings are becoming increasingly apparent for Transformer interpretation, making the field of interpretability
more demanding today. In this tutorial, we will present Transformer-specific interpretability methods, a
new trending approach, that make use of specific features of the Transformer architecture and are deemed
more promising for understanding Transformer-based models. We start by discussing the potential pitfalls
and misleading results model-agnostic approaches may produce when interpreting Transformers. Next,
we discuss Transformer-specific methods, including those designed to quantify context-mixing interactions among all input pairs (as the fundamental property of the Transformer architecture) and those thatcombine causal methods with low-level Transformer analysis to identify particular subnetworks within amodel that are responsible for specific tasks. By the end of the tutorial, we hope participants will understand the advantages (as well as current limitations) of Transformer-specific interpretability methods andhow they can be applied to their own research work.

If you’re interested in getting a notification when more information is available, do sign up for tutorial
mailing list: https://is.gd/TTNbhe.

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LLMs for Low Resource Languages in Multilingual, Multimodaland Dialectal Settings
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Sabri Boughorbel and Maram Hasanain
https://llm-low-resource-lang.github.io/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Fortress 2
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - from 14:00 to 17:30
The recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be attributed to the remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across a spectrum of research areas (e.g., machine translation,question-answering, automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech generation) and application domains(e.g., business, law, healthcare, education, and psychology). The success of these LLMs largely depends on
specific training techniques, most notably instruction tuning, RLHF, and subsequent prompting to achieve
the desired output. As the development of such LLMs continues to increase in both closed and open
settings, evaluation has become crucial for understanding their generalization capabilities across different tasks, modalities, languages, and dialects. This evaluation process is tightly coupled with prompting,which plays a key role in obtaining better outputs. There has been attempts to evaluate such models focusing on diverse tasks, languages, and dialects, which suggests that the capabilities of LLMs are still
limited for medium-to-low-resource languages due to the lack of representative datasets. The tutorial offers an overview of this emerging research area. We explore the capabilities of LLMs in terms of theirperformance, zero- and few-shot settings, fine-tuning, instructions tuning, and close vs. open models witha special emphasis on low-resource settings. In addition to LLMs for standard NLP tasks, we will focus
on speech and multimodality.

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Workshops
Detailed Schedule
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Radisson Hotel - SRW - Student Research Workshop
Reading

p.41

Thursday, March 21, 2024
Radisson Hotel - CODI - 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
Reading

p.42

Radisson Hotel - CLPsych - Ninth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology
Carlsonp.43

Radisson Hotel - LTEDI - Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Marie Louise 1

p.44

Radisson Hotel - SCI-CHAT - Workshop on Simulating Conversational Intelligence in ChatMarie Louise 2

p.45

Corinthia Hotel - UnImplicit - The Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language
Bastion 1

p.46

Corinthia Hotel - MOOMIN - Workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP
Bastion 2

p.47

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Corinthia Hotel - CALD-pseudo - Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization
Gardjola 3

p.48

Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22, 2024
Corinthia Hotel - Computel-7 - The Seventh Workshop on The Use of Computational Methods in the Study of p.49
Gardjola 1 & 2 Endangered Languages

Friday, March 22, 2024
Radisson Hotel - SIGTYP - The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multi- p.50
Marie Louise 1 lingual NLP
Radisson Hotel WNUT - 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text
RadissonBallroom

p.51

Corinthia Hotel - TEICAI - Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic p.52
Bastion 1
Diversity, and Language Rights
Corinthia Hotel - UncertaiNLP - Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
Bastion 2

p.53

Radisson Hotel - LaTeCH-CLfL - The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cul- p.54
Claremonttural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
Corinthia Hotel - SCALE-LLM - Workshop on the Scaling Behavior of Large Language Models
Fortress 1

p.55

Radisson Hotel - CASE - The 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio- p.56
Reading
political Events from Text
Corinthia Hotel - DravidianLangTech - The Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dra- p.57
Fortress 2
vidian Languages
Radisson Hotel - LAW-XVIII - The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Marie Louise 2

p.58

Corinthia Hotel - NLP4HR - The 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Human Resources
Gardjola 3

p.59

Radisson Hotel - PERSONALIZE - Personalization of Generative AI Systems
Carlsonp.60

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SRW - Student Research Workshop
Organizers:
Ameet Deshpande, EunJeong Hwang, Vishvak Murahari, Joon Sung Park, Diyi
Yang, Ashish Sabharwal, Karthik Narasimhan and Ashwin Kalyan
https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw/homepage

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Reading
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The 2024 EACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) will be held in conjunction with EACL 2024. The
conference will be held in hybrid mode in Malta. The SRW gives student researchers in Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing the opportunity to present their work and receive constructive feedback and mentorship by experienced members of the ACL community.
14:00 - 15:30

Poster Session (7)16:00 - 16:10

Opening Remarks

16:15 - 17:15

Panel

17:20 - 17:55

Best Student Papers Session

17:55 - 18:00

Closing Remarks

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CODI - 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
Organizers:
Chloé Braud, Christian Hardmeier, Chuyuan Li, Junyi Jessy Li, Sharid Loáiciga,
Michael Strube and Amir Zeldes
https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024/home?authuser=0

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Reading
Thursday, March 21, 2024

The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand andproduce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surgeof activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems
in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized fourWorkshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021, COLING 2022 and ACL 2023 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops
have catalyzed work to improve the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served
as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods.
09:15 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:30

Invited Talk - Hannah Rohde: Inferences of additional coherence-driven meaning within andacross clauses

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Poster Session 1

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Invited Talk - Manfred Stede: Connectives and Arguments

14:30 - 15:30

Poster Session 2

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Session - Oral presentations

17:30 - 17:45

Closing Remarks

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CLPsych - Ninth Workshop on Computational Linguistics andClinical Psychology
Organizers:
Andrew Yates, Bart Desmet, Emily Prud’hommeaux, Ayah Zirikly, Steven Bedrick,Sean MacAvaney, Kfir Bar, Molly Ireland and Yaakov Ophir
https://clpsych.org/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Carlson
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Since 2014, CLPsych has brought together researchers in computational linguistics and NLP, who use
computational methods to better understand human language, infer meaning and intention, and predict individuals’ characteristics and potential behavior, with mental health practitioners and researchers, who arefocused on psychopathology and neurological health and engage directly with the needs of providers andtheir patients. This workshop’s distinctly interdisciplinary nature has improved the exchange of knowledge, fostered collaboration, and increased the visibility of mental health as a problem domain in NLP.
08:45 - 09:00

Workshop Intro

09:00 - 09:45

Keynote 1

09:45 - 10:30

Shared Task Session

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:45

Poster Session

11:45 - 12:45

Paper Session 1

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Panel

15:00 - 15:45

Keynote 2

15:45 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 17:15

Paper Session 2

17:15 - 17:30

Closing Remarks

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LTEDI - Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality,
Diversity and Inclusion
Organizers:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bharathi B, Paul Buitelaar, Durairaj Thenmozhi,
György Kovács and Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras
https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Marie Louise 1
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field throughout the world.
Language as a major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s
large internet community uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across theglobe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves
this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and deep learning are entrenching existing biases andthat some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus
is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender, racial, sexual orientation, persons with disability.
The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in English,
but also in less resourced languages.
09:00 - 09:15

Opening Remarks

09:15 - 09:45

Keynote - Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland

09:45 - 11:00

Paper Session 1 - Chair: Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland

11:00 - 11:30

Cofee Break

11:30 - 12:30

Poster Session 1 - Chair: B. Bharathi, SSN College of Engineering, India

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:45

Paper Session 2 - Chair: Miguel Angel Garcia Cumbreras, University of Jaén, Spain

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:15

Poster Session 2 - Chair: Gyorgy Kovacs,Lulea University of Technology (LTU), Sweden

17:15 - 17:45

Plenary and Closing Remarks

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SCI-CHAT - Workshop on Simulating Conversational Intelligencein ChatOrganizers:
Andreas Vlachos, David Vandyke, Emine Yilmaz, Hsien-chin Lin, Ivan Vulić, Julius
Cheng, Michael Zock, Songbo Hu, Stefan Ultes and Valerio Basile
https://sites.google.com/view/dialogue-evaluation/home?authuser=3

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Marie Louise 2
Thursday, March 21, 2024

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts working on open-domain dialogue research. In
this speedily advancing research area many challenges still exist, such as learning information from conversations, engaging in realistic and convincing simulation of human intelligence, reasoning, amongst others.
SCI-CHAT follows previous workshops on open domain dialogue, but with a focus on the simulation of
intelligent conversation, including the ability to follow a challenging topic over a multi-turn conversation,
while positing, refuting and reasoning over arguments with live human evaluation employed as the primarymechanism for evaluating models (Ji et al., 2022). The workshop will include a research track and sharedtask.
09:15 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:30

Invited Talk - Ondřej Dušek

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00

Invited Talk - Dimitra Gkatzia

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30

Contributed talks

14:30 - 15:30

Shared Task Discussion and Findings

15:30 - 16:00

Session 4 - In-person and online poster session

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00

Session 4 - In-person and online poster session - continued

17:00 - 17:10

Closing remarks

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UnImplicit - The Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit andUnderspecified Language
Organizers:
Valentina Pyatkin, Daniel Fried, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Alisa Liu and Sandro Pezzelle
https://unimplicit2024.github.io/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Bastion 1
Thursday, March 21, 2024

In order to resolve the meaning of underspecified and ambiguous language, we often employ additional
modalities and information acquired through embodied experience (Bisk, 2020). For example “the girlsaw the man with the telescope” becomes unambiguous if paired with an image of a man holding a telescope. In contrast, NLP typically considers language in isolation, removed from the context in which it
is typically found. This workshop will highlight multimodal inputs, especially visual ones, as sources of
information for resolving underspecification. These inputs can themselves pose additional challenges, e.g.
through ambiguous images or videos (Bhattacharya, 2019; Sanders, 2022). The goal of the third edition of
the workshop is to continue eliciting future progress on processing implicit, underspecified and ambiguous
language with a strong focus on annotation ambiguity, multimodality and pragmatics. Similar to the firsttwo editions, we would accept theoretical and practical contributions (long, short and non-archival) on all
aspects related to the workshop topic.
09:30 - 09:45

Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:45 - 10:45

Invited Talk 1 - Raquel Fernández

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:30

In-Person Poster Session

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:30

In-Person Oral Presentations

14:30 - 15:30

Invited Talk 2 - Malihe Alkhani

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Invited Talk 3 - Benjamin Bergen

17:00 - 17:10

Closing Remarks

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MOOMIN - Workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP
Organizers:
Timothee Mickus, Jörg Tiedemann, Ahmet Üstün, Raúl Vázquez and Ivan Vulic
https://moomin-workshop.github.io/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Bastion 2
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Welcome to the website for the MOOMIN workshop, the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 in Malta on March 21st. Modularity also promises efficient training,
adaptation and inference through component selection, re-combination, aggregation, and re-use (Pfeiffer
et al, 2020). There are huge potentials of saving computational costs and the overall carbon footprint. Allof those attractive properties and ideas are subject of the workshop we propose. Stressing the re-use wealso emphasize the development of open components that can be shared, deployed and widely integrated
within the broader research community. Finally, we focus on multilinguality, one of the biggest remaining
challenges in NLP.
09:15 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote 1: Edoardo M. Ponti

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:20

Session 1: Efficient use of Adapters

12:20 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

Session 2: Selection and weighting of modules

15:00 - 15:40

Session 3: Tuning LLMs

15:40 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Keynote 2: Angela Fan

17:00 - 17:20

Closing Remarks

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CALD-pseudo - Computational Approaches to Language Data
Pseudonymization
Organizers:
Elena Volodina, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Simon Dobnik, Xuan-Son Vu,
David Alfter, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez and Maria Irena Szawerna
https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/CALD-pseudo/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Gardjola 3
Thursday, March 21, 2024

CALD-pseudo workshop is a cross-disciplinary forum for advancing privacy protection of unstructured
text data and data openness through pseudonymization.
This year the workshop has invited a broad community of researchers in all concerned cross-disciplinary
fields to jointly discuss challenges within pseudonymization, such as: automatic approaches to detection
and labelling of personal information in unstructured language data; developing context-sensitive algorithms for replacement of personal information in unstructured data; studies into the effects of pseudonymization on unstructured data; effectiveness of pseudonymization as a way of protecting writer identity; andnumerous other open questions.
09:00 - 09:10

Opening Remarks by Elena Volodina

09:10 - 10:00

Invited talk 1. Anders Søgaard. Title: NLP is Dead - Now What? - Chair: Elena Volodina

10:00 - 10:30

Session 1 - Chair: Maria Irena Szawerna

10:30 - 11:00

COFFEE break

11:00 - 12:00

Session 2 - Chair: Hercules Dalianis

12:00 - 13:00

LUNCH break

13:00 - 13:50

Invited talk 2. Ildikó Pilán. Title: Pseudonymisation and related techniques: a quest for
determining what personal information to rewrite and how - Chair: Elena Volodina

13:50 - 14:00

Short break

14:00 - 14:45

Session 3 - Chair: Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez

14:45 - 14:50

Short break

14:50 - 15:30

Session 4 - Chair: Ildikó Pilán

15:30 - 16:00

COFFEE break

16:00 - 17:00

Panel discussion with Ildikó Pilán, Thomas Vakili, etc. - Chair: Elena Volodina

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Computel-7 - The Seventh Workshop on The Use ofComputational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
Organizers:
Sarah Moeller, Godfred Agyapong, Antti Arppe, Aditi Chaudhary, Christopher Cox,
Ryan E. Henke, Alexis Palmer, Shruti Rijhwani, Daisy Rosenblum and Lane
Schwartz
https://computel-workshop.org/computel-7/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Gardjola 1 & 2Thursday, March 21, 2024 - Friday, March 22, 2024
The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists
interested in methods for endangered languages, field linguists documenting these languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. The intention of the workshop is not
merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists,
documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together andserve their common interests. The organizers are pleased with the range of papers, many of which highlight the importance of interdisciplinary work and interaction between the various communities that theworkshop is aimed towards. In addition to the regular program, we hosted a special theme session discussion at the workshop. The theme for this Special Session is “Partnerships in Practice”. The goal ofthis Special Session is to increase our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to support community goals for language revitalization. We received 34
submissions as papers or extended abstracts or submissions to the Special Session. After a thorough review
process, 19 submissions were accepted of which 13 were selected to be published in the ACL Anthology
excluding the extended abstracts. The Organizing Committee would like to thank the Program Committee
for their thoughtful review of the submissions.
09:30 - 10:00

Day-1 Welcome + Opening Remarks

10:00 - 10:30

Day-1 Session A

10:30 - 11:00

Day-1 Break

11:00 - 12:30

Day-1 Session B

12:30 - 14:00

Day-1 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Day-1 Session C

15:30 - 16:00

Day-1 Break

16:00 - 17:30

Day-1 Special Session I Partnerships in North America

09:00 - 10:30

Day-2 Special Session II Partnerships in Europe and Australia

10:30 - 11:00

Day-2 Break

11:00 - 12:30

Day-2 Session D

12:30 - 14:00

Day-2 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Day-2 Session E

15:30 - 15:45

Day-2 Closing Remarks

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SIGTYP - The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational
Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP
Organizers:
Michael Hahn, Alexey Sorokin, Ritesh Kumar, Andreas Shcherbakov, Yulia
Otmakhova, Jinrui Yang, Oleg Serikov, Priya Rani, Edoardo M. Ponti, Saliha
Muradoğlu, Rena Gao, Ryan Cotterell and Ekaterina Vylomova
https://sigtyp.github.io/workshop.html

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Marie Louise 1
Friday, March 22, 2024

The aim of the 6th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of
information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead tothe development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual
NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research anddiscussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual
NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as aplatform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2024, we additionally focus on bridging the gap between crosslinguistic and universal annotation, models, and technology.
08:50 - 09:00

Opening Remarks

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote by Christian Bentz - Chair: Ekaterina Vylomova

10:00 - 10:30

Low-Resource NLP - Chair: Ekaterina Vylomova

10:30 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:20

Typology and Language Comparison

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:45

Keynote by Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques

14:45 - 15:30

Multilinguality

15:30 - 16:15

Break

16:15 - 17:00

Shared task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages - Chair:
Oksana Dereza

17:00 - 17:30

Typology and Human Language Processing

17:35 - 17:50

Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals (EACL Findings)

17:50 - 18:00

Best Paper Awards, Closing

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WNUT - 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text
Organizers:
Rob van der Goot, Max Müller-Eberstein, JinYeong Bak, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter and
Tim Baldwin
https://noisy-text.github.io/2024/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Radisson Ballroom
Friday, March 22, 2024
The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online
reviews, digital health records, or language learner essays.
09:00 - 09:05

Opening Remarks

09:05 - 10:00

Keynote: Yvette Graham

10:00 - 10:30

Oral Session 1

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Poster Session

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Keynote: Jennifer Foster

15:00 - 15:30

Oral Session 2

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Oral Session 3

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TEICAI - Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI:
Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights
Organizers:
Sviatlana Höhn, Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Dimitra Anastasiou, Bettina Migge,
Angela Soltan, Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Doris Dippold and Fred Philippy
https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Bastion 1
Friday, March 22, 2024

Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (suchas speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven bytechnology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This, combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination,
exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comesfrom written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social,and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language israrely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity andinclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters. Our workshop aims at addressing these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue andcollaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development
and commissioning of conversational AI systems.
09:00 - 09:30

Welcome and Introduction

09:30 - 10:30

Keynote Talk by Justine Cassel: "Culturally-Aware Educational Language Technologies"

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Paper Session 1

12:00 - 13:45

Lunch Break

13:45 - 14:40

Paper Session 2

14:40 - 15:30

Keynote Talk by Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi: "Language Technology for Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion"

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:40

Round-Table: "The magic components of success: multidisciplinary collaboration among
language rights, langauge ideology and conversational AI communities"

16:40 - 16:50

Closing Words

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UncertaiNLP - Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
Organizers:
Wilker Aziz, Joris Baan, Hande Celikkanat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Barbara
Plank, Swabha Swayamdipta, Jorg Tiedemann, Dennis Ulmer and Raúl Vázquez
https://uncertainlp.github.io/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Bastion 2
Friday, March 22, 2024

Human languages are inherently ambiguous and understanding language input is subject to interpretation and complex contextual dependencies. Nevertheless, the main body of research in NLP is still basedon the assumption that ambiguities and other types of underspecification can and have to be re-solved.
This workshop will provide a platform for research that embraces variability in human language and aims
to represent and evaluate the uncertainty that arises from it, and from modeling tools themselves. UncertaiNLP brings together researchers embracing sources of uncertainty from human language and NLP
tools; harnessing them for improved NLP.
09:00 - 09:10

Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:55

Keynote Talk - Chrysoula Zerva

09:55 - 10:15

Presentation Session 1

10:15 - 10:30

Poster Spotlights

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15

In-Person Poster Session

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch Break

13:15 - 14:00

Keynote Talk - Clara Meister

14:00 - 15:30

Presentation Session 2

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

Presentation Session 3

16:30 - 17:15

Keynote Talk

17:15 - 17:30

Closing Remarks

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LaTeCH-CLfL - The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on
Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences,
Humanities and Literature
Organizers:
Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva and Stan Szpakowicz
https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2024/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Claremont
Friday, March 22, 2024

There is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities
researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how
cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer
and more effective tools and models.
09:00 - 09:05

Welcome09:05 - 10:05

Talk Session

10:05 - 10:35

Poster session

10:35 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00

Poster session

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:30

Invited Talk - Marten Düring and Maud Ehrmann

14:30 - 15:30

Talk Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:20

Talk Session

17:20 - 17:40

Business Meeting SIGHUM

17:40 - 17:45

Closing54

SCALE-LLM - Workshop on the Scaling Behavior of Large
Language Models
Organizers:
Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Fazl Barez, Shay Cohen, Elena Voita, Ulrich
Germann and Michal Lukasik
https://scale-llm-24.pages.dev/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Fortress 1
Friday, March 22, 2024

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a venue to share and discuss results of investigations into thescaling behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). We are particularly interested in results displaying"interesting" scaling curves (e.g., inverse, u-shaped, or inverse u-shaped scaling curves) for a variety oftasks. These results, where the performance of the LLMs decreases with increasing model size or follows
a non-monotonic trend, deviating from the expected "the bigger, the better" positive scaling laws, are ofgreat scientific interest as they can reveal intrinsic limitations of current LLM architectures and training
paradigms and they provide novel research directions towards a better understanding of these models andof possible approaches to improve them.
09:00 - 09:15

Opening Remarks

09:15 - 09:45

Invited Talk 1 - Ian McKenzie

09:45 - 10:30

Oral presentations

10:30 - 14:00

Break

14:00 - 14:30

Invited talk 2 - Najoung Kim

14:30 - 15:15

Panel discussion

15:15 - 15:30

Best paper announcement and closing remarks

15:30 - 17:30

Poster session

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CASE - The 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications ofAutomated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
Organizers:
Andrew Halterman, Giuseppe Tirone, Osman Mutlu, Tadashi Nomoto, Hristo Tanev,
Onur Uca, Peratham Wiriyathammabhum, Marijn Schraagen, Gaurav Singh, Fiona
Anting Tan, Surendrabikram Thapa, Alexandra DeLucia, Kumari Neha, MariaEskevich, Guanqun Yang, Cagri Toraman, Debanjana Kar, Man Luo, Nelleke
Oostdijk, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Guneet Singh Kohli and Vanni Zavarella
https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Reading
Friday, March 22, 2024

We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, DL, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars
involved in the collection and utilization of SPE data. Academic workshops specific to tackling event information in general or for analyzing text in specific domains such as health, law, finance, and biomedical
sciences have significantly accelerated progress in these topics and fields, respectively. However, there
has not been a comparable effort for handling SPEs. We fill this gap. We invite work on all aspects ofautomated coding and analysis of SPEs and events in general from mono- or multi-lingual text sources.
09:00 - 09:10

Opening Remarks

09:10 - 10:10

Event Extraction, approaches and resources

10:10 - 10:30

Large Language Models for Event Extraction, Part I

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Large Language Models for Event Extraction, Part II

12:00 - 12:40

Cllimate Activism Hate and Stance Event Detection Shared Task

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45

Hate Speech in Turkish and Arabic Tweets (HSD-2LANG)

14:45 - 15:30

Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Poster session

17:00 - 17:20

Closing remarks

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DravidianLangTech - The Fourth Workshop on Speech andLanguage Technologies for Dravidian Languages
Organizers:
Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Sajeetha
Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Rajeswari Natarajan and Manikandan Ravikiranhttps://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2024/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Fortress 2
Friday, March 22, 2024

The development of technology increases our internet use, and most of the global languages haveadapted themselves to the digital era. However, there are many regional, under-resourced languages thatface challenges as they still lack developments in language technology [1]. One such language familyis the Dravidian family of languages. Dravidian languages are primarily spoken in south India and Sri
Lanka. Pockets of speakers are found in Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, other parts of India and elsewhere in
the world. The Dravidian languages, which are 4,500 years old [2] and spoken by millions of speakers,
are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing [1]. The Dravidian languages are divided
into four groups: South, South-Central, Central, and North groups. Dravidian morphology is agglutinatingand exclusively suffixal. Syntactically, Dravidian languages are head-final and left-branching. They are
free-constituent order languages. To improve access to and production of information for monolingual
speakers of Dravidian languages, it is necessary to have speech and languages technologies. The aim ofthese workshops is to save the Dravidian languages from extinction in technology. This is the first workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages.
09:15 - 09:30

Opening Remarks

09:30 - 10:00

Keynote10:00 - 11:00

Developing Models and Resources for Low Resource Applications - Chair: Bharathi Raja
Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland

11:00 - 13:00

Poster Session - Chair: Prasanna Kumar Kumerasan, University of Galway, Ireland

13:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:45

Overview and Findings of Shared Tasks at DravidianLangTech 2024 - Chair: Rahul Ponnusamy, University of Galway, Ireland

15:45 - 17:00

Tea Break

17:00 - 17:15

Meeting, Awards, Closing

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LAW-XVIII - The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Organizers:
Sophie Henning, Manfred Stede, Amir Zeldes and Ines Rehbein
https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Marie Louise 2
Friday, March 22, 2024

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of statisticalnatural language processing. The Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) is the annual workshop of the
ACL and ELRA Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN), and it provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including the creationand evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluationof annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised“human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. As in the past, theLAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, andinteroperability of annotation information and software.
08:50 - 09:00

Opening Remarks

09:00 - 10:00

Long Papers 1

10:00 - 10:30

Short Papers 1

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50

Invited Talk: Lilja Øvrelid

11:50 - 12:50

Long Papers 2

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

In-Person Poster Session

15:00 - 15:30

Short Papers 2

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Long Papers 3

17:00 - 17:10

Short Talk

17:10 - 17:20

Closing Remarks

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NLP4HR - The 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processingfor Human Resources
Organizers:
Estevam Hruschka, Naoki Otani, Thom Lake and Tom Mitchell
https://megagon.ai/nlp4hr-2024/

Venue: Corinthia Hotel - Gardjola 3
Friday, March 22, 2024

The Human Resources (HR) field involves a range of diverse tasks where Natural Language Processing(NLP) can provide valuable assistance. These tasks include talent acquisition, career growth guidance, performance management, continuous education, and training, among others. At the same time, the adoptionof automated techniques for HR applications can also pose certain risks and concerns, such as fairness, privacy, reproducibility, controllability, and transparency among others, for which, again, NLP research canplay a pivotal role. The NLP4HR workshop aims to bring together research communities from academia
and industry in these interconnected areas to discuss related challenges and opportunities. The workshop
will feature invited talks, a panel discussion, and presentations of submitted long and short papers. It will
also provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to come together and exchange their ideas andexperiences through open discussions.
08:30 - 08:40

Opening Remarks

08:40 - 09:30

Invited Talk 1

09:30 - 10:30

Oral Presentation Session 1

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:50

Invited Talk 2

11:50 - 12:20

Oral Presentation Session 2

12:20 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 13:50

Invited Talk 3

13:50 - 14:40

Panel

14:40 - 15:30

Poster Session

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:50

Invited Talk 4

16:50 - 17:00

Closing Remarks

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PERSONALIZE - Personalization of Generative AI Systems
Organizers:
Ameet Deshpande, EunJeong Hwang, Vishvak Murahari, Joon Sung Park, Diyi
Yang, Ashish Sabharwal, Karthik Narasimhan and Ashwin Kalyan
https://genpersonalization.github.io/

Venue: Radisson Hotel - Carlson
Friday, March 22, 2024

The exponential growth of generative AI and foundation models has spurred significant development,
adoption, and capital investment across various industries. However, an important challenge lies in thegeneric nature of these systems, lacking personalization, which hinders their effectiveness for diverse user
demographics. Addressing this issue has become a major focus for both model developers and firms, withbillions of dollars and extensive research efforts dedicated to personalization initiatives, exemplified byprojects like Snap’s MyAI and Meta’s Abraham Lincoln bot plans. Despite this progress, there are three
key challenges being overlooked: technical, legal, and philosophical. Technical challenges encompass
issues with existing personalization methods, such as computational efficiency, quality, and safety concerns. Meanwhile, legal and philosophical considerations are vital due to the potential for misuse, harmful
consequences, biased behavior, and privacy violations associated with personalized AI systems. The PERSONALIZE workshop aims to serve as a platform for diverse stakeholders to explore these multifaceted
challenges and engage in discussions and guide the future of personalized generative AI.
09:00 - 09:15

Opening Remarks

09:15 - 09:45

Invited Talk 1

09:45 - 10:15

Invited Talk 2

10:15 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00

Panel discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

In-Person Poster Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

Invited Talk 3

16:30 - 17:00

Best Paper Talks (General and Theme)

17:00 - 17:30

Virtual poster session

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Conference Venue

This years EACL has 2 Venues: While the main conference will be held at the Radisson Blu in St.
George’s Bay. Workshops and Tutorials will be split between 2 Venues:• Radisson Blu - St. Julian’s - St George’s Bay, St. Julian’s, STJ 3391, Malta• Corinthia St George’s Bay - St Julian’s, STJ 3301, Malta

Radisson Blu
The Hotel Radisson Blu is surrounded by views of the Mediterranean Sea. Conveniently located in St.
Julian’s, the resort is only 13.5 kilometers from Malta International Airport and under 10 kilometers fromValletta, the Maltese capital. The modern rooms and suites have free Wi-Fi, television, desk, minibar and61

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tea and coffee making facilities. Many offer a balcony; the suites also have a terrace and/or sea view. Some
suites are also equipped with a whirlpool bathtub.
The breakfast buffet is included in our ACL Room Block and for those booking outside the block it isavailable at an additional cost. There are 3 restaurants, a bar, a heated indoor pool and several outdoor
pools. Other facilities include a business center, a spa with massage treatments, and activities like scuba
diving and jet skiing. Parking is included in the price.
Corinthia St. George Bay
Located next door to the Host hotel Right on the waterfront of St. George’s Bay, the Corinthia is a
5-star hotel with an on-site spa and 5 swimming pools set on luxurious sea-view terraces. Free Wi-Fi isavailable throughout. Corinthia Hotel St. George’s Bay features spacious, air-conditioned rooms with alarge balcony, most overlooking the sea. Fine dining at the Corinthia includes a generous daily breakfast,plus 11 restaurants serving a variety of cuisines, all with views. Restaurants have both indoor and outdoor
options, offering a wide selection of fine wines and cocktails. Corinthia’s Apollo by Dee Spas is available
for a variety of treatments including beauty treatments, Ayurvedic and reflexology massages. It also has
an indoor heated pool, a sauna, a jacuzzi and a gym. Self-hire boat rental may be rented at the hotel’swatersport and diving centre. Bus stop and hop on hop off stops are located right outside the hotel to takeyou to Malta’s main localities and attractions in Valletta and Sliema. Hotel is also located at a walking
distance to restaurants and bars.

About Malta

Explore Malta: https://2024.eacl.org/downloads/Malta.pdf
Presentation and Image credits: Max Bartolo (Local Ambassador)
Food options: There’s Sole close by which is excellent, but a bit high end and Melting Pot (the restaurantof the local football club) is a good choice for a quick snack. Paceville is a short 5-10 min walk away.
That’s the main clubbing area on the island and gets very crowded but might be worth a visit.

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Encourage attendees to explore the whole island in particular:• Valletta• Mdina• Hagar Qim and Mnajdra prehistoric temples• Birgu• Blue Grotto• Fishing village of Marsaxlokk (fish market open on Sundays until approx 12:30)• A boat trip to Comino which will be beautiful in March• Explore scuba diving options• Beaches: Mellieha Bay, Paradise Bay, Golden Bay, Ghajn Tuffieha• Mgarr for traditional food like rabbit, horse meat and quail
Recommend Tour Company www.hellomaltatours.com

Things to do in Malta
Saturday:• Hop on hop off bus tour in Malta (north + south tour)• Hop on hop off bus tour in Gozo
• 2-harbours cruise• Weather permitting the Gozo/Comino cruise• Temples tour with guide• Rabat, Mdina & San Anton Gardens with guide
Sunday:• Hop on hop off bus tour in Malta (north + south tour)• Hop on hop off bus tour in Gozo
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