This work presents a systematic search of various model architecture configurations and data cleaning methods. The study evaluates the impact of data cleaning methods on the obtained results. Additionally, we demonstrate that a combination of CNN and Encoder-only models such as BERTweet outperforms FNNs. Moreover, by utilizing data augmentation, we are able to overcome the challenge of data imbalance.

IUST at ClimateActivism 2024: Towards Optimal Stance Detection: A Systematic Study of Architectural Choices and Data Cleaning Techniques

This work addresses the challenges of question answering for vintage texts like the Quran. It introduces two tasks: passage retrieval and reading comprehension. For passage retrieval, it employs unsupervised fine-tuning sentence encoders and supervised multi-task learning. In reading comprehension, it fine-tunes an Electra-based model, demonstrating significant improvements over baseline models. Our best AraElectra model achieves 46.1% partial Average Precision (pAP) on the unseen test set, outperforming the baseline by 23%.

GYM at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Quranic Passage Retrieval and Question Answering with Large Language Models

[**Teleport to Gather**](https://app.gather.town/app/XDzSQW1b0mpTTAYr/EACL2024?spawnToken=qPtfN1icQ3aWE7S-_yMW) Nowadays, the unprecedented quantity of easily accessible data on social, political, and economic processes offers ground-breaking potential in guiding data-driven analysis in social and human sciences and in driving informed policy-making processes. Governments, multilateral organizations, and local and global NGOs present an increasing demand for high-quality information about a wide variety of events ranging from political violence, environmental disasters, and conflict, to international economic and health crises (Coleman et al. 2014; Porta and Diani, 2015) to prevent or resolve conflicts, provide relief for those that are afflicted, or improve the lives of and protect citizens in a variety of ways. Citizen actions against the COVID measures in the period 2020-2022 and the Russia – Ukraine war are only two examples where event-centered data can contribute to better understanding of real-life situations. Finally, these efforts respond to “growing public interest in up-to-date information on crowds” as well. [**Read more**](https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/) **Program Overview** 
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

W11: The 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text (CASE)

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Welcome to the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Continuing its mission of expanding and involving the science community of all European countries, EACL has selected the Malta community for the 18th EACL. Considering the importance of physical interaction among researchers, the conference will be held at the Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians, in Malta, from 17 to 22 of March, 2024. The conference will also feature the possibility to participate virtually. As the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language. 
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EACL 2024

As the flagship European conference in the field of computational linguistics, EACL welcomes European and international researchers covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language.

**[Workshop Organizers:](https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/organizers)**
 *Coffee Break 10:30 am* 
*Lunch Break 12:30 pm* 
*Coffee Break 3:30 pm* [**Workshop Website**](https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/) The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB). ArabicNLP 2023 builds on the seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. [**Schedule**](https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/program)
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W17: The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023)

**Welcome to EMNLP 2023!**

On behalf of the EMNLP 2023 Organizing Committee, I extend a warm and heartfelt welcome to all of you to the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). It is with immense pleasure and excitement that we gather here in Singapore, a vibrant hub of innovation and technological advancement.

The conference program is packed with insightful presentations, thought-provoking workshops, and engaging networking opportunities. In addition to the technical sessions, we have also planned several social events that will provide you with the opportunity to connect with your colleagues.

The conference is held in person at the Resorts World Convention Centre in Singapore, and available on-line with the help of Underline.

For those in Singapore, I hope that you will find time to explore the exciting Sentosa Island, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Botanic Gardens and the many other attractions unique to Singapore.

Of course, we are grateful to our sponsors and partners for their generous support of EMNLP 2023, whose contributions make it possible for us to host this world-class event.

Yuji Matsumoto (RIKEN AIP) 
EMNLP 2023 General Chair

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Please follow **[this link](https://2023.emnlp.org/registration/)** for more details.

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