Conference Overview
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 - Pre-Conference
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Arabic Spring School Registration (Closed session. For approved applicants only) |
| 09:00 - 17:00 | Arabic NLP School (Closed session. For approved applicants only) |
| 10:30 - 19:30 | Main Conference Registration for Main conference attendees |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome Reception for Main conference attendees and their registered guests |
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - Main Conference
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 07:30 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 11:00 | Session 1: Plenary 09:00 - 10:00 Opening Session Welcome – General Chair, Local Chairs, Program Chairs Paper Awards 10:00 - 11:00 Invited Keynote Speaker: Nizar Habash Title: Arabic and Technology: A 40-Year Perspective |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Session 2: A: Oral/Posters/Demos/Industry/Affinity/BoF Orals Biomedical and Clinical NLP Applications - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Multilingual, Low-Resource, and Language-Specific Benchmarks - Salle La Palmeraie Level 1 Safety and Alignment - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Uncertainty, Reliability, and Model Confidence - Salle Walili Level 0 Values and Moral Reasoning in LLMs - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Industry Session 1: Opening/Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) Affinity/BoF Affinity: Arabic NLP - Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) BoF: Emotion Analysis and Generation - Salle Les Oudayas Level 2 (stairs) Posters/Demos Main Conference & Findings - Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Affinity Breakout: SomosNLP - Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Session 3: B: Orals/Posters/Demos/Industry/Affinity Orals Discourse and Pragmatics - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Evaluation: Detection, Misuse, and Reliability Benchmarks - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Generalization and Linguistic Biases in LLMs - Salle La Palmeraie - Level 1 Information Retrieval - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 NLP for Social Understanding - Salle Walili Level 0 Industry Session 2: Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) Affinity Affinity: EquiCL - Salle Les Oudayas Level 2 (stairs) Posters/Demos Main Conference & Findings - Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Session 4: C: Oral/Posters/Demos/Industry/Affinity/BoF Orals Cognitive Perspectives on Language Models - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Human and Social Interaction with LLMs - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Robust Reasoning and Correctness in LLMs - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Structural Foundations and Cross-Lingual Representations - Salle La Palmeraie - Level 1 Structured Text Understanding - Salle Walili Level 0 Industry Session 3: Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) Affinity/BoF Affinity: Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data - Salle Les Oudayas (stairs) BoF: Multilingual and Multimodal Cultural Inclusivity in LLMs - Salle Lamrissa (stairs) Posters/Demos Main Conference & Findings - Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual Session 1 Underline - Main, IND, SRW, Demo |
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - Main Conference
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 07:00 - 08:30 | Virtual Session 2 Underline - Main, IND, SRW, Demo |
| 08:30 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 5: D: Orals/Posters/Demos/SRW/Affinity Orals Clinical, Mental Health, and Safety-Critical Evaluation - Salle Walili - Level 0 Knowledge Graphs, Fact-Centric Reasoning, and Domain Knowledge - Salle La Palmeraie Level 1 Learning Linguistic Structure OR Linguistic Structure and Learning Biases - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Multimodal Models and Datasets - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Reasoning and Self-Learning in LLMs - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Student Research Workshop Opening Remarks, Best Paper Award Presentation & Spotlight talks - Salle La Challah Level 2 (stairs) Affinity/BoF Affinity: Muslims in ML - Salle Les Oudayas (stairs) BoF: Ask us Anything - Conference 101 Salle Lamrissa (stairs) Posters & Demos Industry - Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6: E: Orals/Posters/Demos/Industry/BoF Orals Evaluating LLMs and VLMs in Applied Tasks - Salle Walili - Level 0 Evaluation: Instruction Following, Robustness, and Stress Testing - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Generation - Pavillon De Rabat - Level 1 Model Generalization, Robustness, and Preference Optimization - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Modeling Lexical and Figurative Meaning - Salle La Palmeraie Level 1 Industry Session 4: Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) BoF BoF: Biomedical Retrieval and RAG: In the Lab and Beyond - Salle Les Oudayas Level 2 (stairs) BoF: Scientific Publishing: Stop Pretending This Works - Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) Posters & Demos Student Research Workshop – Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | Virtual Session 3 Underline – Main, IND, SRW, Demo |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | BoF Sessions: BoF: Sociotechnical Challenges of GenAI - Salle Les Oudayas Level 2 (stairs) |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Session 7: Business Meeting & BoF Business Meeting (all attendees encouraged and welcome) - Salle Le Riad Level 1 BoF: Queer in AI – Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Session 8: F: Oral/Posters/Demos/Industry/Affinity/BoF Orals Efficient Inference and Adaptive Decoding - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Historical & Multiscript Language Processing - Salle La Palmeraie Level 1 Multilingual Reliability - Salle Walili Level 0 Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Tool Use, RAG, and Structured Evaluation Resources - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Affinity/BoF Affinity: Masakhane NLP – Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) BoF: Mechanistic Interpretability vs. Neuro-symbolic Reasoning in LLMs - Salle Les Ouadays Level 2 (stairs) BoF: Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP: Challenges and Lessons from Practice - Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) Posters & Demos Industry & Student Research Workshop– Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Session 9: Plenary Invited Keynote Speaker - Marta R. Costa-Jussà Title: Omnilinguality, Scaling AI to Any language |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual Session 4 Underline – Findings |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Social Event |
Friday, March 27, 2026 - Main Conference
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 07:00 - 08:30 | Virtual Session 5 Underline - Findings |
| 08:30 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 10: G: Orals/Posters/Demos/Industry/BoF: Orals Agents, Interaction, and Autonomous Workflows - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Dialogue and Interaction - Salle Walili Level 0 Human-Centric NLP - Salle La Palmeraie Level 1 Multilingual Diversity and Resource-Aware Scaling - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Safety, Alignment, and Prompt-Induced Risks - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Industry Session 5: Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) BoF ACL Mentorship: Navigating Mental Health in Fast-Paced AI Research - Salle Lamrissa Level 2 (stairs) Note: 9:30 start time Posters & Demos Main Conference & Findings - Poster Hall – Ground Level Adjacent Building |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 11: H: Oral/Poster/Demos/Industry/BoF: Orals Information Extraction - Salle Le Lixus Level 1 Measuring Social, Political, and Cultural Biases - Salle Walili - Level 0 Mechanistic Interpretability - Salle Le Riad Level 1 Parameter-Efficient Tuning and Training Dynamics - Pavillon De Rabat Level 1 Training and Inference Dynamics in Language Models - Salle La Palmeraie - Level 1 Industry Session 6: Orals - Salle Le Chellah Level 2 (stairs) BoF Tokenization & Beyond - Salle Les Oudayas Level 2 (stairs) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 12: Plenary Invited Keynote Speaker: Mariya Toneva Title: Large Language Models as Model Organisms of Language in the Human Brain |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Session 13: Plenary & Closing Session 15:30 - 16:30 Karen Spärck Jones Awardee: Andrew Yates Title: Search with Complex Topics and Learned Sparse Retrieval 16:30 - 17:00 Closing Session |
Saturday, March 28, 2026 - Workshops & Tutorials
SEE WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL FOR DETAILED SCHEDULE
Posters will be in The Hall.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4 |
Sunday, March 29, 2026 - Workshops & Tutorials
SEE WORKSHOP & TUTORIAL FOR DETAILED SCHEDULE
Posters will be in The Hall.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 08:00 - 16:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Session 1 |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 4 |