MBZUAI at ACL2023

Summary

MBZUAI researchers had 26 papers accepted at ACL 2023, a top NLP conference. Assistant Professor Alham Fikri Aji co-authored eight papers, including one on crosslingual generalization through multitask finetuning (MTF). Deputy Department Chair Preslav Nakov co-authored a paper on a Bulgarian language understanding benchmark dedicated to the memory of Yale Computer Scientist Dragomir R. Radev. Why it matters: MBZUAI's strong presence at ACL highlights its growing influence in the NLP field and its contributions to multilingual AI research.