CustomNLP4U 2026

📣 We are BACK at #ACL2026 in San Diego☀️🌊 If you’re tackling problems related to customizable NLP, consider submitting your work to our 2nd workshop! 🙌 More details: 🔗 customnlp4u.github.io #ACL #NLProc #ACL2026NLP #customizableNLP @aclmeeting

📣We are looking for reviewers for our #CustomNLP4U workshop at #ACL2026! If interested, please sign-up here 👉 forms.gle/5M2syqsUK4Cr7H…

📣 Deadline is coming soon this Friday (April 3rd) 11:59pm AoE! We’re looking forward to your work on customizable NLP! ⭐️ #NLProc #ACL #CustomizableNLP

The CFP for the second edition of the workshop on Customizable NLP at #ACL2026 is now live: customnlp4u.github.io! We will announce the speakers / panelists soon. Looking forward to your submissions!

While I'm on X to share my paper, I also have a life update I'll be joining @UTiSchool as an assistant professor starting Fall 2026! Excited for this next chapter, and to keep working on teaching computers to better understand language and humans (+now teaching humans too)

🚨 NEW WORKSHOP ALERT 🚨 We're thrilled to announce the first-ever Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) at #ICML2025 @icmlconf! 🎉 Submissions are open for work on tokenization across all areas of machine learning. 📅 Submission deadline: May 30, 2025 🔗 tokenization-workshop.github.io

The Outstanding Paper Award 2/2 goes to "Trustful LLMs: Customizing and Grounding Text Generation with knowledge bases and Dual Decoders" by Xiaofeng Zhu, Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu 🎉

The Best Paper Award goes to "Constructing Domain-Specific Evaluation Sets for LLM-as-a-judge" by Ravi Shanker Raju, Swayambhoo Jain, Bo Li, Jonathan Lingjie Li, Urmish Thakker 🎉

The Outstanding Paper Award 1/2 goes to "Active Learning for Robust and Representative LLM Generation in Safety-Critical Scenarios" by Sabit Hassan, Anthony Sicilia, Malihe Alikhani 🎉

Researchers from SambaNova Systems will be at @emnlpmeeting this week. We are presenting 2 papers, 🎉🎉1 of which has won the best paper award 🎉🎉 at @customnlp4u . 1. SambaLingo: Teaching Large Language Models New Languages - We dive deeper into how we train our Sambalingo series of multilingual models at @mrl2024_emnlp ✅ This series of models has been downloaded from that 🌟 100K times🌟 and has inspired development of popular models in various geographical locations. ✅ We dive into how to adapt monolingual models to new languages during pre-training, instruction tuning and alignment, understanding the trade offs with respect to tokenizers and translated data 2. Constructing Domain-Specific Evaluation Sets for LLM-as-a-judge - We dive deeper into how to construct benchmarks for domain specific tasks and datasets at @customnlp4u ✅ The basic idea of the paper is to introduce a data pipeline to generate domain-specific evaluations for LLM-as-a-Judge, tailored for your (or your customer's) usecase! ✅ There are also more interesting experiments like comparing different kinds of judges such as closed source vs open source judges, etc. Work done by Jonathan Li, @ravi_ragu , @BoLi1550313 , @swayambhoo , @changran_hu , Yun Du, Qiantong, Pian Pawakapan, Leon Zhang and @ZoltanCsaki_ Reach out to @ravi_ragu , @BoLi1550313 and @ZoltanCsaki_ who are attending the conference if you want to chat about #LLM #Inference, Fast Tokens, the papers above or talk about opportunities at SambaNova Systems

Our last, but of course not the least, keynote talk about “Advancing NLP equally for everyone” by @maartjeterhoeve 🤩 #NLProc #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 #customizableNLP

So, I present three workshop paper at EMNLP today. Stop by to say hi, if you are in Miami. The first one is "Vocabulary Transfer for Biomedical Texts: Add Tokens if You Can Not Add Data at @customnlp4u this morning. Here is the link to the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2208.02554

Happening Now:

The 3️⃣rd keynote talk by Jared Roesch @roeschinc is starting now! #NLProc #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 #customizableNLP

I will do a talk about customizing Large Language Models to Large Agent Models to interact with physical world at @customnlp4u customnlp4u-24.github.io If you are interested in Reasoning and Planning, come join us!

Check out our poster session at Riverfront Hall now! ✨ Boards no. 225-250! #NLProc #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 #customizableNLP @emnlpmeeting

🎤 Second keynote talk by @hannahrosekirk on One Size Fits None? Interrogating Personalised AI Alignment #NLProc #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 #customizableNLP

The first keynote talk by @Diyi_Yang on Customizing Language Models for Social Interactions #NLProc #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 #customizableNLP

Happening now!

Final day of #EMNLP2024! 🌴 🎙️ I will give an invited talk at the Customizable NLP workshop, @customnlp4u Title: Advancing NLP equally for everyone 📌 Merrick 1, 2:45pm - 3:30pm Hope to see you there! 1/2