Birds of Feather
Birds of Feather Sessions will take place during the Main conference Days on Wednesday, March 25 - Friday, March 27, 2026. Please see the online conference schedule on Underline or Whova for session details. Overview
Please also check the online conference schedule on Underline/Whova for the latest updates.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
| Time | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Arabic NLP | Lamrissa (stairs) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Emotion Analysis and Generation | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | SomosNLP | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | EquiCL | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Multilingual and Multimodal Cultural Inclusivity in LLMs | Lamrissa (stairs) |
Thursday, March 26, 2026
| Time | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Muslims in ML | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Biomedical Retrieval and RAG: In the Lab and Beyond | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Sociotechnical Challenges of GenAI | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Mechanistic Interpretability vs. Neuro-symbolic Reasoning in LLMs | Les Oudayas (stairs) |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP: Challenges and Lessons from Practice | Lamrissa (stairs) |
Friday, March 27, 2026
| Time | Topic | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP: Challenges and Lessons from Practice | Lamrissa (stairs) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Tokenization & Beyond | Les Oudayas (stairs) |