@mageed

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

 Vancouver, British Columbia
dlnlp.ai
Joined August 2007
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EMNLP 2026@emnlpmeetingOct 19
โฐ 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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EMNLP 2026@emnlpmeetingSep 22
The Early Registration deadline for EMNLP 2026 is September 24. Only 2 days left! ๐Ÿ”— 2026.emnlp.org/registration/ #EMNLP2026

Registration Information

Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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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.โ€ฆ openreview.net/group?id=EMNLโ€ฆ
Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026@mrl_workshopAug 24
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! ๐Ÿšจ Deadline in two weeks (September 4) ๐Ÿ”— OpenReview Link: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLโ€ฆ See you in Budapest!
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ArabicNLP2026
@_ArabicNLPAug 9
๐Ÿ“ข We are excited to announce a number of scholarships to payย for the registration feesย for students to attend #ArabicNLP2026ย virtually or in person,ย thanks to our generous sponsors! Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1Fโ€ฆ Applications are open tillย Augustย 22, 2026

SIGARAB/ArabicNLP 2026 Scholarship Registration

The ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB) is happy to announce the availability of a number of scholarships to pay for the registration fees for students to attend ArabicNLP 2026...

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EMNLP 2026@emnlpmeetingAug 2
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. ๐Ÿ”— Details: 2026.emnlp.org/concerning-laโ€ฆ

Concerning late ACL 2026 desk rejections

Dear All Authors,

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NAACL HLT 2027@naaclmeetingJul 8
๐ŸŒ‰#NAACL2027 will be June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA!๐ŸŒ‰ ARR submission deadline: Oct. 12, 2026
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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLPJul 9
That's a wrap! It was a pleasure sharing our work and connecting with colleagues at #ACL2026NLP.
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UBC NLP Group@UBC_NLPJul 3
๐Ÿ“ข 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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ArabicNLP2026
@_ArabicNLPJul 3
ArabicNLP continues growing with a record breaking number of submissions: ๐Ÿ”ฅ 198 submissions! ๐Ÿ”ฅ That is a 102% increase from last year ๐ŸŽ‰ 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/

ArabicNLP 2026

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Abdellah EL MEKKI, Ph.D.@3ebdolaJul 2
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. ๐Ÿ“ Coronado: Session 17: Poster Session G ๐Ÿ—“ Tues., July 7: 11:00 AMโ€“12:30 PM @aclmeeting
Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs, will be presented at ACL 2025 Main conference.

ALT Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs, will be presented at ACL 2025 Main conference.

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UHN AI Hub@UHNAIHUBJun 5
Yesterday was an exciting milestone with the release of Canadaโ€™s AI Strategy. A strong step toward advancing innovation and responsible AI adoption in healthcare.
University Health Network
@UHNJun 4
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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ArabicNLP2026
@_ArabicNLPMay 15
๐Ÿ“ข ู…ุคุชู…ุฑ ArabicNLP 2026 - ุงู„ุฏุนูˆุฉ ุงู„ุซุงู„ุซุฉ ู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… ุงู„ุฃูˆุฑุงู‚ ุงู„ุจุญุซูŠุฉ ๐Ÿ“ข ุณูŠุนู‚ุฏ ุงู„ู…ุคุชู…ุฑ ุงู„ุฑุงุจุน ู„ู…ุนุงู„ุฌุฉ ุงู„ู„ุบุฉ ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠุฉ ุงู„ุทุจูŠุนูŠุฉ (ArabicNLP 2026) ุจุงู„ุชุฒุงู…ู† ู…ุน ู…ุคุชู…ุฑ EMNLP 2026 ููŠ ุจูˆุฏุงุจุณุชุŒ ุงู„ู…ุฌุฑ (ุฃูƒุชูˆุจุฑ 2026). - ุขุฎุฑ ู…ูˆุนุฏ ู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… ุงู„ู…ู„ุฎุตุงุช: ูกูจ ูŠูˆู†ูŠูˆ ูขู ูขูฆ - ุขุฎุฑ ู…ูˆุนุฏ ู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… ุงู„ุฃุจุญุงุซ ุงู„ูƒุงู…ู„ุฉ: ูขูฅ ูŠูˆู†ูŠูˆ ูขู ูขูฆ ู„ู„ุงุทู„ุงุน ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ู…ุฒูŠุฏ ู…ู† ุงู„ุชูุงุตูŠู„ ุญูˆู„ ุชุนู„ูŠู…ุงุช ุงู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… ูˆุบูŠุฑู‡ุงุŒ ุชูุถู„ ุจุฒูŠุงุฑุฉ ุงู„ู…ูˆู‚ุน ุงู„ุฅู„ูƒุชุฑูˆู†ูŠ:arabicnlp2026.sigarab.org/caโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“ข ArabicNLP 2026 - Third Call for Papers ๐Ÿ“ข ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข๐œ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž (๐€๐ซ๐š๐›๐ข๐œ๐๐‹๐ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”) ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐œ๐จ-๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐„๐Œ๐๐‹๐ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐‡๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ (๐Ž๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”) - 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/caโ€ฆ #ArabicNLP2026โฉ #ArabicNLPโฉ

ArabicNLP 2026 - Call for Papers

The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2026) Co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary (October, 2026). (Hybrid Mode) Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2026.sigara...

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ISED
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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-scieโ€ฆ
Text: Government of Canada announces Talent Innovation Canada investment to bridge research excellence and industry.

ALT Text: Government of Canada announces Talent Innovation Canada investment to bridge research excellence and industry.

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ArabicNLP2026
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Great news for the Arabic NLP community! ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ“ข Call for Shared Task Proposals is now open! ุงู„ุฅุนู„ุงู† ุงู„ุฃูˆู„ ู„ู„ุฏุนูˆุฉ ู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… (Shared Tasks) ุถู…ู† ุงู„ู…ุคุชู…ุฑ ุงู„ุฑุงุจุน ู„ู„ู…ุนุงู„ุฌุฉ ุงู„ุขู„ูŠุฉ ู„ู„ุบุฉ ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠุฉ ArabicNLP 2026ุŒ ูˆุงู„ุฐูŠ ุณูŠูุนู‚ุฏ ุจุงู„ุชุฒุงู…ู† ู…ุน EMNLP 2026 ููŠ ุจูˆุฏุงุจุณุชุŒ ู‡ู†ุบุงุฑูŠุงุŒ ุฎู„ุงู„ ุงู„ูุชุฑุฉ 24โ€“29 ุฃูƒุชูˆุจุฑ 2026. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ ุขุฎุฑ ู…ูˆุนุฏ ู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู… Shared Tasks: 25 ุฃุจุฑูŠู„ 2026 โœ… ุฅุดุนุงุฑุงุช ุงู„ู‚ุจูˆู„: 2 ู…ุงูŠูˆ 2026 ๐Ÿ”— ุฑุงุจุท ุงู„ุชู‚ุฏูŠู…: forms.gle/gwUJcDyKcQnvNsMM8 Great news for the Arabic NLP community! ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐Ÿ“ข 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 24โ€“29, 2026. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Shared Task proposal submission deadline: April 25, 2026 โœ… Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2026 ๐Ÿ”— Submission link: forms.gle/gwUJcDyKcQnvNsMM8 #ArabicNLP2026 #ArabicNLP #SharedTasks #ArabicNLPSharedTasks #EMNLP2026
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Demis Hassabis
@demishassabisJan 29
AlphaGenome is our latest & most advanced genomics model published in @Nature today including making the model & weights available to academic researchers. Canโ€™t wait to see what the research community will do with it. Congrats to the team on our newest front cover! #AI4Science
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMindJan 28
Our breakthrough AI model AlphaGenome is helping scientists understand our DNA, predict the molecular impact of genetic changes, and drive new biological discoveries. ๐Ÿงฌ Find out more in @Nature โ†“ goo.gle/4bXlV6y
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Richard Sutton
@RichardSSuttonJan 24
Very nice video covering the ideas and history of reinforcement learning. Love the original footage from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
Art of the Problem
@Artoftheproblem2 Sep 2025
Replying to @RichardSSutton
Thrilled to hear this! Did a video on your work: youtu.be/Dov68JsIC4g

How Machines Learn to Act

A full history of Reinforcement Learning's development, from Mitchi...

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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-celtiโ€ฆ . huggingface.co/datasets/McGiโ€ฆ

African & Celtic ST track

Home of the IWSLT conference and SIGSLT.

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Abdellah EL MEKKI, Ph.D.@3ebdola2 Nov 2025
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@Africa_NLP22 Oct 2025
๐Ÿšจ AfricaNLP 2026 First Call for Paper The 7th AfricaNLP Workshop at EACL 2026 (Rabat, Morocco) invites papers on Multilingual Multimodal LLMs for African languages. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Submission deadline: December 19 2025 (AoE) Details: sites.google.com/view/africaโ€ฆ #AfricaNLP #EACL2026 #NLP
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eaclmeeting@eaclmeeting1 Sep 2025
EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ, Mar 24-29 2026) ๐Ÿ‘‰ Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ โ€ข ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 โ€ข EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025
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