First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing

Dec 7, 2023: Best paper and Outstanding Reviewer Awards are announced.
Oct 23, 2023: Accepted papers are listed.
Sep 9, 2023: Submission deadline is extended to Sep 12 12:59 PM (UTC-0).
Sep 1, 2023: Paper Submission Portal is available in OpenReview. Every author of the paper needs to register in OpenReview.
Aug 21, 2023: Shared task rank lists are public. Task 1, Task 2.
Jul 22, 2023: Pre-submission Mentoring is launched.
Jul 15, 2023: Two Shared Tasks are announced.
May 12, 2023: First Call for Papers is announced.
May 1, 2023: Join the Slack workgroup for communication.

* These dates are approximate date based on EMNLP 2023 and are subject to changes.

Paper submission due	~~Sep 12 (Tue), 2023~~
Notification of acceptance	~~Oct 10 (Tue), 2023~~
Camera-ready due	~~Oct 17 (Tue), 2023~~
Workshop	7 December 2023 co-located with EMNLP

Program

Thursday, December 7, 2023

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

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

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

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