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Important Dates
Paper submission due | Sep 29 (Mon), 2025 |
Notification of acceptance | Nov 3 (Mon), 2025 |
Camera-ready due | Nov 11 (Tue), 2025 |
Workshop | December 2025 co-located with IJCNLP-AACL |
Program
Thursday, December 7, 2023
09:00 - 9:20 Opening Remarks
09:20 - 09:50 Invited Talk 1
- Title: NLP in Mexican Spanish: A Path Through Shared Tasks
- Speaker: Manuel Montes-y-Gómez
09:50 - 10:30 Oral Presentation I (long papers)
- Session Chair: TBA
- 09:50 - 10:02: BSpell: A CNN-Blended BERT Based Bangla Spell Checker
Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman, MD.Hasibur Rahman, Samiha Zakir, Mohammad Rafsan and Mohammed Eunus Ali - 10:02 - 10:14: BLP-2023 Task 1: Violence Inciting Text Detection (VITD)
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Mohamed Rahouti, Nabeel Mohammed and Mohammad Ruhul Amin - 10:14 - 10:26: BLP-2023 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis
Md. Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Anika Anjum, Shudipta Das and Afiyat Anjum
- 09:50 - 10:02: BSpell: A CNN-Blended BERT Based Bangla Spell Checker
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Poster Session
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Oral Presentation II (long papers)
- Session Chair: TBA
- 13:00 - 13:12: Low-Resource Text Style Transfer for Bangla: Data & Models
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Akanksha Bansal, Pritha Majumdar, Atul Kr Ojha and Ondrej Dusek - 13:12 - 13:24: Vio-Lens: A Novel Dataset of Annotated Social Network Posts Leading to Different Forms of Communal Violence and its Evaluation
Sourav Saha, Jahedul Alam Junaed, Maryam Saleki, Arnab Sen Sharma, Mo- hammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Mohamed Rahouti, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Na- beel Mohammed and Mohammad Ruhul Amin - 13:24 - 13:36: Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition
Rabindra Nath Nandi, Mehadi Hasan Menon, Tareq Al Muntasir, Sagor Sarker, Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem, Md. Tariqul Islam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury and Firoj Alam - 13:36 - 13:48: Contextual Bangla Neural Stemmer: Finding Contextualized Root Word Representations for Bangla Words
Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin and Akmmahbubur Rahman - 13:48 - 14:00: Crosslingual Retrieval Augmented In-context Learning for Bangla
Xiaoqian Li, Ercong Nie and Sheng Liang
- 13:00 - 13:12: Low-Resource Text Style Transfer for Bangla: Data & Models
14:00 - 14:10 Break
14:10 - 15:05 Oral Presentation III (long + short papers)
- Session Chair: TBA
- 14:10 - 14:22: Advancing Bangla Punctuation Restoration by a Monolingual Transformer-Based Method and a Large-Scale Corpus
Mehedi Hasan Bijoy, Mir Fatema Afroz Faria, Mahbub E Sobhani, Tanzid Fer- doush and Swakkhar Shatabda - 14:22 - 14:29: BanglaCHQ-Summ: An Abstractive Summarization Dataset for Medical Queries in Bangla Conversational Speech
Alvi Aveen Khan, Fida Kamal, Mohammad Abrar Chowdhury, Tasnim Ahmed, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar and Sabbir Ahmed - 14:29 - 14:36: Offensive Language Identification in Transliterated and Code-Mixed Bangla
Md Nishat Raihan, Umma Hani Tanmoy, Anika Binte Islam, Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Marcos Zampieri - 14:36 - 14:43: Intent Detection and Slot Filling for Home Assistants: Dataset and Analysis for Bangla and Sylheti
Fardin Ahsan Sakib, A H M Rezaul Karim, Saadat Hasan Khan and Md Mushfi- qur Rahman - 14:43 - 14:50: Assessing Political Inclination of Bangla Language Models
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Atul Kr Ojha and Ondrej Dusek - 14:50 - 14:57: SynthNID: Synthetic Data to Improve End-to-end Bangla Document Key Information Extraction
Syed Mostofa Monsur, Shariar Kabir and Sakib Chowdhury - 16:57 - 15:04: BEmoLexBERT: A Hybrid Model for Multilabel Textual Emotion Classification in Bangla by Combining Transformers with Lexicon Features
Ahasan Kabir, Animesh Chandra Roy and Zaima Sartaj Taheri
- 14:10 - 14:22: Advancing Bangla Punctuation Restoration by a Monolingual Transformer-Based Method and a Large-Scale Corpus
15:05 - 15:35 Invited Talk 2
- Title: Towards Transforming the Landscape of Indian language Technology
- Speaker: Mitesh Khapra
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:36 Oral Presentation IV (long papers)
- 16:00 - 16:12: BaTEClaCor: A Novel Dataset for Bangla Text Error Classification and Correction
Nabilah Tabassum Oshin, Syed Mohaiminul Hoque, Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin and Akmmahbubur Rahman - 16:12 - 16:24: Investigating the Effectiveness of Graph-based Algorithm for Bangla Text Classification
Farhan Noor Dehan, Md Fahim, Amin Ahsan Ali, M Ashraful Amin and Akm- mahbubur Rahman - 14:24 - 14:36: Pipeline Enabling Zero-shot Classification for Bangla Handwritten Grapheme
Linsheng Guo, Md Habibur Rahman Sifat and Tashin Ahmed
16:36 - 17:15 Panel Discussion
17:15 - 17:30 Industry Talk
- Title: Video Messages from Sponsors