We are excited to announce that the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP) will be co-located with EACL 2026 in Rabat 🇲🇦 (March 24–29)!

As part of #SIGARAB, #AbjadNLP focuses on diversity in NLP research using Arabic script.

🔗wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

Say hello to @vinnlp🎉, our new NLP research group at VinUniversity 🇻🇳 focused on Vietnamese and low-resource NLP. We're launching four exciting projects, including collaborations with Lancaster & Cardiff Universities 🇬🇧 apply on: vinnlp.com

Excited to join VinUniversity in Hanoi as an Associate Professor (Reader) in NLP! Looking forward to new research opportunities in NLP, LLMs, & Data Science. Grateful for the support from colleagues at Lancaster University & excited for this next chapter!

vinuni.edu.vn/people/mo-el-h…

We successfully ran the 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025) yesterday at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi.

We received 27 submissions and accepted 15 papers.

Many thanks to the authors, reviewers, and organisers
wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

2nd Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025)

Workshop: wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/
Submission URL: softconf.com/coling2025/Abj…

@AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation #NLP for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on #Abjad and #Ajami languages.

These include over 43 languages such as Hausa, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Twi, Bambara and Tamazight among others. 

wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/

Calls: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script: 2nd Call for Papers: Submissions may be of two types: Long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Short papers – up to… dlvr.it/TDJdRQ

𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐤.

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#Arabicnlp #acl2024 #aclproc #fintech #chatbot #nlp

@MKhalilia @DocElhaj @hbouamor

FNP 2025 will be @coling2025 on 19-20 January 2025, Abu Dhabi UAE.

wp.lancs.ac.uk/cfie/fnp2025

We are delighted to announce that we will join forces with FinNLP and LLMFinLegal workshops as a joint workshop for the first time. We look forward to your submissions and participation

Proud supervisors moment with @DocElhaj as Salim Al Mandhari presents his research on hateful language detection of Arabic social media texts @nlpaics

Our own Jesse Phillips presenting their paper at the #NLPAICS2024 conference. Paper titled: Metric-Oriented Pretraining of Neural Source Code Summarisation Transformers to Enable more Secure
Software Development. @DocElhaj @LancsUniSE @nlpaics

Workshop about 𝗡𝗮𝐤𝗯𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
ورشة علمية حول النكبة والذكاء الاصطناعي
Call-For-Papers: sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp

#NLP #AL #Nakba #Nakba_NLP #SinaLab #ArabicNLP #COLING #COLING2024 #NLProc #LLMs
@nyhabash @DocElhaj @perayson

Over the past few days, we embarked on an incredible journey of learning, collaboration, and innovation at the @UCREL_NLP Summer School. The mini hackathon was the perfect finale. Congratulations to all the mini hackathon participants and winners.

That’s a wrap for the UCREL NLP Summer School 2024! A huge thank you to all our speakers, tutors, and attendees for making it a success. We look forward to seeing you all at the UCREL NLP Summer School 2025! #UCREL2024 #NLP #ThankYou 👏🏼👏🏼🎉

The next plenary talk is "Machine Learning Models in Production: Lessons Learnt and Practical Considerations" by Akram Dweikat (@AkramDweikat), featuring insights from @Deliveroo and @ZbyHP. #UCREL2024

Day 3 is underway! We begin with a keynote speech by Prof. Eric Atwell from the University of Leeds, presenting “Edubots: Chatbots for University Education.” #UCREL2024

It's day 2 of the UCREL NLP Summer School 2024, and we're starting with a plenary talk by Professor Udo Kruschwitz from Regensburg University. Title: "Beyond the Ivory Tower: Exploring the Reality of Professional Search Beyond Academic Advancements in NLP and IR." #UCREL2024

Session 1 at the UCREL NLP Summer School 2024 has concluded! Huge thanks to @DocElhaj and @NouranKhallaf for an insightful session on visualisation and summarisation 👏🏼👏🏼 #UCREL2024
Next is Session 2: Question Answering & Information Retrieval

Today, we're starting the UCREL #NLProc summer school @LancasterUni @SCC_Lancaster ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uss2024/ #UCREL2024

Welcome from @DocElhaj and our first plenary from Ruslan Mitkov #UCREL2024