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Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Director of @UBC Deep Learning & NLP Group.

Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined August 2007
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Day 2 - First session session of oral presentations for today. The theme is: Arabic for Education and Islamic Knowledge The first talk is presented by Prof. Tamer Elsayed under the title of “Align-Extract-Score: Graded Relevance of Arabic Essays”.
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⏰ Heads-up for #EMNLP2026 attendees! Daylight saving time ends in Budapest on Sunday, October 25. Clocks will go back one hour, from CEST (UTC+2) to CET (UTC+1). Joining us virtually? Please keep this in mind when converting program times to your local time zone!
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Last opportunity to submit papers to MRL 2026 Submit your ARR-reviewed papers to MRL workshop co-located with EMNLP 2026 sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.… openreview.net/group?id=EMNL…
Not happy with your EMNLP decision? or do you want to present your research to a more focused and relevant audience? Then submit your ARR-reviewed papers to MRL 2026! 🚨 Deadline in two weeks (September 4) 🔗 OpenReview Link: openreview.net/group?id=EMNL… See you in Budapest!
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📢 We are excited to announce a number of scholarships to pay for the registration fees for students to attend #ArabicNLP2026 virtually or in person, thanks to our generous sponsors! Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Applications are open till August 22, 2026
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If your paper was desk rejected from ACL 2026 at the Camera Ready stage due to hallucinated references, please read this important note from the #EMNLP2026 Program Committee. 🔗 Details: 2026.emnlp.org/concerning-la…
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🌉#NAACL2027 will be June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA!🌉 ARR submission deadline: Oct. 12, 2026
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That's a wrap! It was a pleasure sharing our work and connecting with colleagues at #ACL2026NLP.
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📢 Check out the accepted ACL and ICML 2026 papers from the UBC NLP group! We look forward to presenting them in San Diego and Seoul! #ACL2026 #ICML2026 #NLProc
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ArabicNLP continues growing with a record breaking number of submissions: 🔥 198 submissions! 🔥 That is a 102% increase from last year 🎉 We are excited for what's coming and hope to keep the momentum going! Reminder for the upcoming dates: - July 16, 2026: Reviews submission deadline - July 24 - July 31, 2026: Rebuttal period arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/
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Our work "Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs " will be presented by @mageed at #ACL2026 Main. 📍 Coronado: Session 17: Poster Session G 🗓 Tues., July 7: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM @aclmeeting
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Yesterday was an exciting milestone with the release of Canada’s AI Strategy. A strong step toward advancing innovation and responsible AI adoption in healthcare.
Proud to host PM @MarkJCarney, Diana Fox Carney and @EvanLSolomon. UHN is excited to partner in shaping the future of AI-enabled health care .
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📢 مؤتمر ArabicNLP 2026 - الدعوة الثالثة لتقديم الأوراق البحثية 📢 سيعقد المؤتمر الرابع لمعالجة اللغة العربية الطبيعية (ArabicNLP 2026) بالتزامن مع مؤتمر EMNLP 2026 في بودابست، المجر (أكتوبر 2026). - آخر موعد لتقديم الملخصات: ١٨ يونيو ٢٠٢٦ - آخر موعد لتقديم الأبحاث الكاملة: ٢٥ يونيو ٢٠٢٦ للاطلاع على المزيد من التفاصيل حول تعليمات التقديم وغيرها، تفضل بزيارة الموقع الإلكتروني:arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/ca… 📢 ArabicNLP 2026 - Third Call for Papers 📢 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 (𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔) 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨-𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐌𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐲 (𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔) - Abstract Deadline: June 18, 2026 - Full Paper Submission: June 25th, 2026 Visit the website for more details on submission instructions and more: https:arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/ca… #ArabicNLP2026⁩ #ArabicNLP⁩
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Minister Joly announces funding for Talent Innovation Canada, a new organization that will connect top graduate talent with Canadian companies working to solve R&D challenges. Learn more: canada.ca/en/innovation-scie…
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Great news for the Arabic NLP community! 🎉 📢 Call for Shared Task Proposals is now open! الإعلان الأول للدعوة لتقديم (Shared Tasks) ضمن المؤتمر الرابع للمعالجة الآلية للغة العربية ArabicNLP 2026، والذي سيُعقد بالتزامن مع EMNLP 2026 في بودابست، هنغاريا، خلال الفترة 24–29 أكتوبر 2026. 🗓️ آخر موعد لتقديم Shared Tasks: 25 أبريل 2026 ✅ إشعارات القبول: 2 مايو 2026 🔗 رابط التقديم: forms.gle/gwUJcDyKcQnvNsMM8 Great news for the Arabic NLP community! 🎉 📢 Call for Shared Task Proposals is now open! The first call for Shared Task Proposals for ArabicNLP 2026 is now out. The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, on October 24–29, 2026. 🗓️ Shared Task proposal submission deadline: April 25, 2026 ✅ Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2026 🔗 Submission link: forms.gle/gwUJcDyKcQnvNsMM8 #ArabicNLP2026 #ArabicNLP #SharedTasks #ArabicNLPSharedTasks #EMNLP2026
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AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Can’t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science
Our breakthrough AI model AlphaGenome is helping scientists understand our DNA, predict the molecular impact of genetic changes, and drive new biological discoveries. 🧬 Find out more in @Nature ↓ goo.gle/4bXlV6y
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Very nice video covering the ideas and history of reinforcement learning. Love the original footage from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
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We are happy to announce a new shared task for @iwslt 2026 for African-Celtic speech translation If you or your team are interested in furthering speech translation research for low-resource languages, then please check out iwslt.org/2026/african-celti… . huggingface.co/datasets/McGi…
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I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with Houdaifa Atou, Omer Nacar, Shady Shehata, and @mageed. Looking forward to meeting people and discuss there! #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18383
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🚨 AfricaNLP 2026 First Call for Paper The 7th AfricaNLP Workshop at EACL 2026 (Rabat, Morocco) invites papers on Multilingual Multimodal LLMs for African languages. 👉 Submission deadline: December 19 2025 (AoE) Details: sites.google.com/view/africa… #AfricaNLP #EACL2026 #NLP
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