LatinX in

Natural Language Processing

Research Workshop at

NAACL 2024

June 16th, 2024 Mexico City, Mexico

* At least a tutorial only registration is required.

LatinXinAI @ NAACL24 -

LatinXinAI @ NAACL24 -

LatinX in NLP (LXNLP) is hosting a hybrid workshop to connect LatinX identifying AI Researchers and Engineers around the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) taking place June 16th, 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES


  • Submission Open : February 23, 2024
    Submission deadline: M̶a̶r̶c̶h̶ ̶2̶9̶,̶2̶0̶2̶4̶ April 10, 2024
    Notification of acceptance: A̶p̶r̶i̶l̶ ̶1̶5̶,̶2̶0̶2̶4̶ April 26, 2024
    Camera-ready submissions: May 14, 2024

  • Application Deadline: April 30, 2024 Link for volunteers application : https://forms.gle/qxTmN4LLbLE13cDu8

  • Application Deadline: May 3, 2024 Link for grant application : https://forms.gle/b1FV7SoZuXMgUg9h6

  • Link for Workshop Recording

  • More information about social

*All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mariano Felice

Dr Mariano Felice is a Senior Researcher and Data Scientist for Language Assessment and Learning at the British Council.  His work involves looking at how artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) can be used to improve language learning and assessment, from mining datasets and building models to supporting colleagues in the adoption of new technology. Mariano is also a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in Computer Science and worked as a Research Associate before joining the British Council. Mariano has published extensively in top-tier NLP conferences and is a frequent speaker at international conferences and reviewer for workshops, journals and conferences in his field.

Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero

Prof. Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero is an academic at the Catholic University of Chile in a joint appointment between the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering. She holds a master's in Physics, a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and a postdoc in public health. Prof. Dunstan leads the clinical natural language processing group in Chile. In particular, they use methods to extract critical information and support decision-making. Besides, she is leading applied projects to leverage information extracted from free text with a gender perspective and privacy-preserving approaches. She also has a podcast called "ciencia de datos". She enjoys discussing work-life balance in academia, the need for more diversity in science, and the importance of interdisciplinary research.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

LatinX in AI is committed to supporting LatinX & Hispanic individuals from all around the world. This year we want to ensure that our workshop is accessible to everyone, no matter where they live. Consequently, you have three (3) options to finance your participation at our workshop: 

  •  Discounted Registration NAACL2024 for Latin American Researchers in the main conference

    NACCL is offering 15 discounted registrations at student rate for Latin American (LATAM) researchers. Eligible applicants should reside in a LATAM country and be affiliated with a LATAM institution. Note that the discounts are offered to only researchers (e.g., postdoc, professors, industrial or government researchers and engineers), not students. Eligible applicants should plan to attend NAACL in person.

  • NAACL Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies

    NAACL 2024 is providing D&I funds for registration, caregiving, bandwidth, travel and VPN subsidies. We strongly encourage researchers to apply for both subsidies and volunteering opportunities to maximise their chances of getting their registration fees waived.

  • LatinX in AI grants

    We are happy to provide support for registration fees and travel grants to help those that have financial needs. If you believe you need financial assistance to cover your travel expenses or to virtually register to NAACL, please make sure to fill out these applications as accurately and truthfully as possible.

    • Opening: April 22, 2024

    • Deadline: May 3, 2024

    • Notification: May 17, 2024

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Join the amazing community of LatinX in AI doing Natural Language processing by registering as a volunteer for the upcoming workshop co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico

As a volunteer, you have the opportunity to choose from a variety of engaging roles, from moderating Q&A sessions to assisting with poster presentations and social media engagement. Plus, we understand the value of your time and commitment, which is why we will prioritize our registration grants for our volunteers. Do not miss out on this opportunity to contribute with your skills and passion to our workshop.

Volunteer Application Deadline: April 25, 2024

Volunteer Notification Date: May 17, 2024

Call For Papers

We welcome extended abstracts that may introduce new theories, methodology, or applications of NLP. We also welcome position papers and demos. Work may be previously published, completed, or ongoing. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers in the area. Specifically, we allow two type of submissions:

  • Archival: Must be blind for the double-blind review process. Accepted works will be published in the Journal of LatinX in AI Research as proceedings.

  • Non-archival: May be submitted to any venue in the future. Previously published work can also be submitted as non-archival, with the additional requirement to state in the first page the original publication source.

The best two (2) accepted papers of the workshop

will be awarded with an

travel Scholarship

to atttend to

KHIPU 2025 (Santiago, Chile)

Specific topics include, but not limited to:

  • Dialogue and Interactive Systems
  • Discourse and Pragmatics
  • Efficient Methods for NLP
  • Ethics and NLP
  • Generation
  • Information Extraction
  • Information Retrieval and Text Mining
  • Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP 
  • Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
  • Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
  • Machine Learning for NLP
  • Machine Translation and Multilinguality
  • NLP Applications
  • Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
  • Question Answering
  • Resources and Evaluation
  • Semantics: Lexical
  • Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas
  • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
  • Speech and Multimodality
  • Summarization
  • Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing

Submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed and should be submitted as a single PDF file of up to 3 pages, excluding references. The submissions should strictly follow the formatting guidelines (excluding paper length) provided by the NAACL 2024 to avoid the risk of being rejected without consideration of their merits. Please follow the ACL Style Template for your submission. Submissions must state the research problem, motivation, and technical contribution. All submissions must be self-contained and include all figures, tables, and references. 

The submission deadlines for the full papers and extended abstracts as well as other important dates are given below. Please note that no extensions will be offered for submissions.

If you have any questions, please email to  lxnlp2024@latinxinai.org

NOTE: Works may be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese. We will assist authors in translating their accepted work into English (translated works will appear in both languages in the proceedings).

Mission

This affinity workshop is aimed at LatinX individuals working on or interested in Computational Linguistics with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin in a field that has been dominated by countries such as China, USA and Germany.

Those already working on Computational Linguistics will have the opportunity to connect with fellow LatinX and make their own work known, while those new to the field will benefit from the scientific exchange, guidance and advice of researchers with their same background. Participants will be able to engage in discussions about Computational Linguistics (formal and informal) and to share their thoughts on how to increase the presence of LatinX in Computational Linguistics.

Diversity and inclusion are key to achieve better and more creative science. By promoting this event, NAACL will not only advocate for an underrepresented community, it will also help to promote the development of technologies and language resources that take into account the different languages ​​that exist in Latin America.

MENTORING PROGRAM

LatinX in AI is hosting a mentoring program alongside our official workshops. The LatinX in AI Mentoring Program requires mentors and mentees to meet once a month. On the day of the workshop, some mentees will be asked to share their experiences and the learnings they obtained from the program.

Mentoring Program Notification: TBA

Mentoring Program End Date: TBA

ACCEPTED PAPERS

Title Authors Presentation Type
Mayasoundex: A Phonetically Grounded Algorithm for Information Retrieval in the Maya Language Alejandro Molina-Villegas (Conacyt-CentroGeo)* Accept - POSTER
On the use of Multimodal Attention for Questionable Content Detection in Videos Arnold Morales (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)*; Elaheh Baharlouei (Univesity of Houston); Thamar Solorio (University of Houston, USA); Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE) Accept - ORAL
A Cross-linguistic Examination of Language Complexity in South American Indigenous Languages Felipe R. Serras (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo)*; Miguel de Mello carpi (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo); Matheus Castello Branco Lima de Araujo (Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo); Marcelo Finger (University of Sao Paulo) Accept - POSTER
Depression Detection through Phrase Generation with ChatGPT-3 in Clinical Interviews Karla M Valencia (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)*; Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE); Luis Villaseñor (INAOE) Accept - POSTER
Multimodal Learning for Hate Speech Detection in Videos for Mexican Spanish Itzel Tlelo (INAOE)*; Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE) Accept - POSTER
Understanding Toxicity and Sentiment Dynamics in Social Media: LLM Analysis of Diverse and Focused Interest Users Abi Oppenheim (ICC)*; Federico Albanese (University of Buenos Aires); Esteban Feuerstein (FCEyN-UBA) Accept - ORAL
Challenging Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Evaluation of AI Models in the Detection of Hate Speech in Brazilian Social Networks Annie Amorim (Federal Fluminense University - UFF)*; Gabriel Assis (IC/UFF); Jonnathan Carvalho (Department of Informatics/Instituto Federal Fluminense); Daniela Vianna (Universidade Federal Fluminense); Daniel Oliveira (UFF, Brazil); Mariza Ferro (Federal Fluminense University - UFF); Aline Paes (Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense) Accept - POSTER
Towards Portuguese Hate Speech Detection with Transformers Gabriel Assis (IC/UFF)*; Annie Amorim (Federal Fluminense University - UFF); Jonnathan Carvalho (Department of Informatics / Instituto Federal Fluminense); Daniel Oliveira (UFF, Brazil); Daniela Vianna (Universidade Federal Fluminense); Aline Paes (Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense) Accept - POSTER
An empirical study of Definition Modeling with LLMs for the main languages of Latin America Erica Kido Shimomoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)*; Edison Marrese-Taylor ( National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)); Enrique A Reid (University of Tokyo) Accept - ORAL
Eigenpruning Tomás Vergara Browne (PUC)*; Álvaro Soto (PUC); Akiko Aizawa (National Institute of Informatics) Accept - POSTER
Sequence-to-Sequence Spanish Pre-trained Language Models Vladimir Araujo (KU Leuven)*; Maria Trusca (KU Leuven); Rodrigo Tufiño (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana); Sien Moens (KU Leuven) Accept - ORAL
A Spanish-language Dataset of Twitter Conversations for Stance Detection Leo Ramos (Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Mike Bermeo (Yachay Tech University)*; Silvana Escobar (Yachay Tech University); Diego Morales-Navarrete (Yachay Tech University); Erick Cuenca (Yachay Tech) Accept - POSTER
On the Challenges of Creating Datasets for Analyzing Commercial Sex Advertisements to Assess Human Trafficking Risk and Organized Activity Pablo Rivas (Baylor University)*; Tomas Cerny (Baylor University ); Alejandro Rodriguez Perez (Baylor University); Javier S Turek (Intel Labs); Laurie Giddens (University of North Texas); Gisela Bichler (California State University, San Bernardino); Stacie Petter (Wake Forest University) Accept - POSTER
Identificación de textos relacionados al cambio climático y sustentabilidad utilizando modelos de lenguaje preentrenados en español Gerardo Huerta (UNI)*; Gabriela Zuñiga Rojas (UNSAAC) Accept - ORAL
Aprendiendo a cocinar de manera saludable con Large Language Models, Supervised Fine Tuning y Retrieval Augmented Generation Andrea Morales-Garzón (University of Granada)*; Sara Benel Ramirez (Independent Researcher); Gabriel Tuco Casquino (UCSM); Oscar A. Rocha (Independent Researcher); Alberto Medina (UPM-ETSI) Accept - POSTER
Detection of hate speech and inappropriate content in Mexican Spanish Memes Horacio Jarquín (INAOE)*; Itzel Tlelo (INAOE); Marco Casavantes (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE)) Accept - POSTER
Towards Improved RAC Accessibility: Dataset and LLMs, approach to enhancing RAC accessibility Edison Jair Bejarano Sepulveda (Universidad de Barcelona)*; Hector Nicolai Potes Patiño (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores); Santiago Pineda Montoya (UNAL); Felipe Ivan Rodriguez (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores); Jaime Enrique Orduy (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores); Danny Stevens Traslaviña (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores); Alec Mauricio Rosales (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores); Sergio Nicolás Madrid (Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores) Accept - ORAL
Exploring the Trade-off Between Model Performance and Explanation Plausibility of Text Classifiers Using Human Rationales Lucas E Resck (Fundação Getulio Vargas)*; Marcos M. Raimundo (University of Campinas); Jorge Poco (FGV, Brazil) Accept - POSTER
A big ant or a small elephant: metaphor interpretation on large language models Luiz Matos (Universidade Federal Fluminense)*; Aline Paes (Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense) Accept - POSTER
Social Biases in Models Trained with Chilean Corpus Tamara Quiroga (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)*; Jocelyn Dunstan (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Accept - POSTER
Cross-Linguistic Framing Analysis: Unveiling Political and Cultural Narratives in Spanish-Language News Juan Cuadrado (Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar)*; Elizabeth Martinez (Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar); Edwin Puertas (Universidad Tecnológica Bolívar); Juan Carlos Martinez-Santos (Universidad Tecnológica Bolívar) Accept - POSTER
Detecting correct answers to open questions and its impact on language models' confidence scores Guido Ivetta (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)*; Hernán Maina (CONICET); Luciana Benotti (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) Accept - ORAL
Efficacy of ByteT5 in Multilingual Translation of Biblical Texts for Underrepresented Languages Jason Wu (Baylor University); Colton Wismer (Baylor University); Zhaoyu Wang (Baylor University); Xiaokan Tian (Baylor University); Lauren Adams (Baylor University); Corinne Aars (Baylor University); Pablo Rivas (Baylor University)*; Korn Sooksatra (Baylor University); Matthew Fendt (Baylor University) Accept - POSTER
Voces de Latinoamérica: Un sistema TTS de bajo recursos para múltiples acentos Jefferson Quispe (vozy)* Accept - POSTER
Suitability in Combining Structural and Content Features for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Carlos Olachea (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica)* Accept - ORAL
Change My Frame: Reframing in the Wild in r/ChangeMyView Arturo MP (NAIST)* Accept - ORAL
Computational Resources for Indigenous Languages Spoken in Argentina: An Introductory Survey María Belén Ticona (University of Buenos Aires)*; Fernando Carranza (Universidad de Buenos Aires); Cotik Viviana (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Accept - ORAL
Proyecto #Somos600M: Generación de recursos que representen la riqueza de las lenguas de LATAM, El Caribe y España María Grandury (SomosNLP)* Accept - POSTER

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Reviewer Affiliation
Jaime Acevedo Viloria LXAI
Fernando Alva-Manchego Cardiff University
Vladimir Araujo KU Leuven
Jorge Arraut AcrossA
Juan Banda Stanford University
CJ Barberan Rice University
Rubenia Borge University of North Texas
Juan Cardenas Cartagena University of Groningen
Jose Cordova-Garcia ESPOL
Daniela Cortes Bermudez LatinX in AI (LXAI)
Oscar Cumbicus Pineda Universidad Nacional de Loja
Mariela De Lucas Alvarez German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga University of Cambridge
Diana Galvan-Sosa University of Cambridge
Yuan Gao University of Cambridge
Gabrielle Gaudeau University of Cambridge
Miguel Gonzalez-Mendoza Tecnologico de Monterrey
Andrew Hamara Baylor University
Julio Hurtado University of Warwick
Pride Kavumba Tohoku University
Bikram Khanal Baylor University
Jinqi Luo University of Pennsylvania
Errol Mamani Condori Research and Innovation Center in Computer Science UCSP
Mauricio Mazuecos ESolutions
Juan Miguel Navarro Carranza Stanford University
Ted Pedersen University of Minnesota Duluth
Nayeli Perez Padilla Universidad de Guadalajara
Ernesto Quevedo Caballero Baylor University
Maisha Binte Rashid Baylor University
Abel Reyes-Angulo Michigan Technological University
Pablo Rivas Baylor University
Alejandro Rodriguez Perez University of Havana
David Romero MBZUAI
Danae Sanchez Villegas University of Copenhagen
Jesus Solano UCL
Korn Sooksatra Baylor University
Sadia Tisha Baylor University
Maria Trusca KU Leuven
Javier Turek Intel
Matias Valdenegro Toro Department of AI, University of Groningen
Jorge Yero Salazar Baylor University

ORGANIZERS

General Chairs — Vladimir Araujo (KU Leuven), Diana Galvan Sosa (University of Cambridge)

Program Committee Chairs — Javier Turek (Intel Labs), Pablo Rivas (Baylor University)

Finance and Sponsor Chairs — Miguel Gonzales (Tecnologico de Monterrey), Luciana Benotti (UNC), Jaime Acevedo-Viloria (BrainFood)

Public Relations Chair — Errol Wilderd (Universidad Católica San Pablo)

Website Chair — Jesus Solano (ETH Zürich)

Volunteers Chair — Danae Sánchez Villegas (University of Copenhagen)

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