The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) is being held in Abu Dhabi from January 18-24, hosted by MBZUAI. The conference features paper presentations, demonstrations, keynote speeches, workshops, and tutorials, with over 1,500 attendees. MBZUAI faculty and students contributed 22 papers to the conference, including research on fact-checking and cross-cultural content. Why it matters: Hosting COLING 2025 highlights the UAE's growing role as a hub for AI and NLP research, particularly in Arabic language processing.
The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will be held in Abu Dhabi in January 2025, hosted by Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). COLING is a major biennial NLP and AI conference that brings together leaders from research centers, academia, and industry. The conference will feature keynote talks, presentations, workshops, and tutorials, with 1,500 expected participants. Why it matters: Hosting COLING underscores the UAE's growing role in AI and NLP research and provides a platform to address regional linguistic challenges and advance AI technologies.
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) opened in Abu Dhabi, marking the emirate as a growing hub for global AI conferences. Three faculty members from Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) hold key positions in the ICDM organizing committee. Abu Dhabi has recently hosted IROS in October and will host COLING in January 2025, with MBZUAI faculty heavily involved in these events. Why it matters: Hosting top-tier AI conferences in Abu Dhabi, with strong MBZUAI participation, enhances the region's reputation and visibility in the global AI community.
NYUAD and MBZUAI co-hosted the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) in Abu Dhabi from December 7-11. EMNLP is a top-tier NLP and AI conference organized by the ACL special interest group on linguistic data (SIGDAT). MBZUAI's Natural Language Processing Department is actively developing NLP datasets and methods to solve social problems. Why it matters: Hosting EMNLP in the UAE highlights the growing importance of NLP research in the region and the increasing contributions of local institutions like MBZUAI to the field.
The first Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025) was held in Abu Dhabi as part of COLING 2025. It provided a forum for researchers to share work on language models for low-resource languages. The workshop accepted 35 papers from 52 submissions, covering diverse languages and research areas.