COLING 25 Detailed Schedule, including all oral presentations and posters, is now available here

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Breakfast and dinner are not provided. The Arabic NLP Winter School will offer Lunch

See detailed schedule under Arabic NLP Winter School.

14:00 – 19:00 Registration (ADNEC)

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

See detailed schedules under Workshop, Tutorials and Arabic NLP Winter School.

07:30 – 16:30 Registration
10:30 – 11:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
15:30 – 16:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)

Monday, January 20, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

07:30 - 17:30 Registration (ADNEC)
10:30 – 11:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
15:30 – 16:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
18:00 - 20:30 Registration (Aloft Splash Garden)
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome Reception (Aloft’s Splash Garden)
Registered attendees only (Welcome drink ticket, light bites)

Please check each workshop as schedules vary

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

07:30 – 16:30 Registration
09:00 – 09:30 Session 1: Plenary – Opening Session
09:30 – 10:30 Welcome & Keynote Speaker: Emmanuel Dupoux
Learning a language like infants do: results and challenges for developmentally inspired NLP
10:30 – 11:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Orals/Posters/BoF Session A Orals

Hall B (A) - Multilinguality and Machine Translation 1
Hall B (B) - Semantics and Reasoning 1
Hall B (C) - Natural Language Generation and Summarization 1
Capital Suite 7 - NLP Applications 1
Atrium Poster/Demos: NLP Applications; Information Extraction and Retrieval; Cognitive Modeling and Language Acquisition; Dialogue and Conversational Interaction
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
12:30 – 14:00 Break (Lunch on own)
14:00 – 15:30 Session 3: Orals/Posters/BoF Session B Orals

Hall B (A) - Discourse, phonology and syntax
Hall B (B) - Machine Learning
Hall B (C) - Interpretability and Explainability
Capital Suite 7 - Language Resources and Evaluation 1
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Semantics and Reasoning; NLP Applications; Multilinguality, Machine Translation and Low-Resource Languages; Natural Language Generation and Summarization
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
15:30 – 16:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
16:00 – 17:30 Session 4: Orals/Posters/BoF Session C Orals

Hall B (A) - Cognitive modelling
Hall B (B) - Information extraction and retrieval 1
Hall B (C) - Dialogue and Conversational Interaction 1
Capital Suite 7 - NLP Applications 2
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Discourse, Phonology and Syntax; Interpretability and Explainability; Language Resources and Evaluation; Machine Learning
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

08:30 – 16:30 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Orals/Posters/BoF Session D Orals

Hall B (A) - Multimodal NLP 1
Hall B (B) - Information extraction and retrieval 2
Hall B (C) - Industry 1
Capital Suite 7 - Low-resource languages 1
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: NLP Applications; Ethics, Bias and Fairness; Multilinguality, Machine Translation and Low-Resource Languages
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
10:30 – 11:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
11:00 – 12:30 Session 6: Orals/Posters/BoF Session E Orals

Hall B (A) - Ethics, bias and fairness 1
Hall B (B) - Multilinguality and machine translation 2
Hall B (C) - Industry 2
Capital Suite 7 - NLP Applications 3
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Language Modeling; Semantics and Reasoning; Language Resources and Evaluation; Sentiment Analysis
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
12:30 – 14:00 Break (Lunch on own)
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7: Orals/Posters/BoF Session F Orals

Hall B (A) - Semantics and reasoning 2
Hall B (B) - Language modeling 1
Hall B (C) - Industry 3
Capital Suite 7 - Language Resources and Evaluation 2
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Information Extraction and Retrieval; Multimodal NLP; Machine Learning
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
15:30 – 16:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
16:00 – 17:00 Session 8: Plenary - Keynote Speaker: Katrin Erk
Word meaning, in computational linguistics and beyond

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

08:30 – 16:30 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Session 9: Orals/Posters/BoF Session G Orals

Hall B (A) - Low-resource languages 2
Hall B (B) - Semantics and reasoning 3
Hall B (C) - Language Resources and Evaluation 3
Capital Suite 7 - NLP Applications 4
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Industry
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
10:30 – 11:00 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
11:00 – 12:30 Session 10: Orals/Posters/BoF Session H Orals

Hall B (A) - Multimodal NLP 2
Hall B (B) - Sentiment Analysis 1
Hall B (C) - Ethics, bias and fairness 2
Capital Suite 7 - Language Resources and Evaluation 4
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Multilinguality, Machine Translation and Low-Resource Languages; Language Resources and Evaluation; Semantics and Reasoning; NLP Applications
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
12:30 - 22:30 Social Excursions

Option 1 - A half-day tour of the Grand Mosque and The Presidential Palace followed by a dinner in the desert under the stars, offers a truly unique and memorable experience. Click here for an overview of the tour.

Option 2 - A half-day tour of the Abrahamic Family House and the Louvre Abu Dhabi, followed by a desert dinner under the stars, offers a perfect blend of cultural exploration and adventure. Click here for an overview of the tour.

Option 3 - A half-day desert tour in Abu Dhabi that includes sand dunes, camel riding, sand surfing, a boxed lunch, and dinner under the stars offers an exhilarating and immersive experience into the heart of the Arabian desert. Click here for an overview of the tour

Friday, January 24, 2025

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are not provided.

Main Conference

08:30 – 16:30 Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Session 11: Plenary - Keynote Speaker: Partha Talukdar
Towards linguistically and culturally inclusive LLMs
10:00 – 10:30 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
10:30 – 12:00 Session 12: Orals/Posters/BoF Session I Orals

Hall B (A) - Sentiment Analysis 2
Hall B (B) - Natural Language Generation and Summarization 2
Hall B (C) - Dialogue and Conversational Interaction 2
Capital Suite 7 - Multilinguality and machine translation 3
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: NLP Applications; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Modeling; Information Extraction and Retrieval
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
12:00 – 13:30 Break (Lunch on own)
13:30 – 15:00 Session 13 Orals/Posters/BoF Session J Orals

Hall B (A) - Language Resources and Evaluation 5
Hall B (B) - Language Modeling 2
Hall B (C) - Information extraction and retrieval 3
Capital Suite 7 - Multimodal NLP 3
Atrium - POSTER/Demos: Natural Language Generation and Summarization; Dialogue and Conversational Interaction; Sentiment Analysis; Multimodal NLP
Hall B (D) – BoF: See Details on the this page
15:00 – 15:30 Break (Coffee, Tea & light bites)
15:30 – 16:30 Session 14: Awards
16:30 – 17:00 Closing Remarks