Queer in AI
Pranav A & Vasundhara & Luca Soldaini & Sabine Weber

The Queer in AI social is an event for queer people and allies in NLP to share their experiences, network with others and discuss queer issues in research. The social will involve a mix of mini-talks, Q&A sessions and breakout discussions. All event information will remain confidential to respect the privacy and safety of participants. People of all identities, including allies, are invited to attend!
This event takes place in Zoom.
Veg*NLP
Boaz Shmueli

Vegetarians and vegans encounter fascinating challenges in many academic settings. We will discuss the multitude of issues and share anecdotes, stories and recipes as non-meat-eaters in the academic world. Everyone is welcome to join, including carnivores, omnivores, and people with religious or any other dietary restrictions!
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
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LatinX in NLP
Luciana Benotti & Diana Galván Sosa

This affinity social is aimed at LatinX individuals working on or interested in NLP with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin in a field that has been dominated by other regions.
This event takes place in Zoom.
North Africans in NLP
Asma Ben Abacha & Khalil Mrini & Meriem Beloucif & Nedjma Ousidhoum & Waleed Ammar

We welcome NLP & AI researchers who are North African and/or are based in North Africa to attend our panel discussion with an exciting line-up of speakers, and to participate in our two networking sessions.
This event takes place in Zoom & Gather.Town.
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Building NLP in Africa
Jade Abbott
African NLP is more than just a lack of data, it's African expression, it's decolonisation, it's poetry, literature and music. Whether your African or simply excited by Africa, please join us at the Masakhane social.
This event takes place in Zoom.
Junior Faculty in Linguistics/CogSci
Nathan Schneider
An informal gathering for junior faculty (U.S. Assistant Professors and similar) around the world who identify as linguists or cognitive scientists. Discussion will center on approaches to, and challenges of, computational teaching and research in these disciplines.
This event takes place in Zoom.
The Unofficial EMNLP Welcome Social, Now with Clustering!
Sam Bowman
The goal is to recreate an important part of any conference: Getting to know new people with interests that are similar to yours. All registered EMNLP 2020 attendees are welcome, no matter where you are or how much experience you have with NLP. *You must register before 11pm UTC on Monday to attend*.
This event takes place in Zoom.
Computational Social Science and Social Media
Preslav Nakov

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Computational Social Science and Social Media".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Machine Translation and Multilinguality
Chi-kiu (Jackie) Lo & Antonis Anastasopoulos

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Machine Translation and Multilinguality".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
NLP Applications
Deqing Chen

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "NLP Applications".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Question Answering
Pradeep Dasigi & Xianchao Wu

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Question Answering".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Resources and Evaluation
Eunsol Choi

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Resource and Evaluation".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas
Ted Pedersen & Siva Reddy

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Textual Inference and Other areas".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Iryna Gurevych

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Speech and Multimodality
Grzegorz Chrupala

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Speech and Multimodality".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Summarization
Lili Mou & Muthukumar Chandrasekaran

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Summarization".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Ryan Cotterell & Valia Kordoni

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Walter Chang & Samira Shaikh

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Dialogue and Interactive Systems".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Discourse and Pragmatics
Vered Shwartz

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Discourse and Pragmatics".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Generation
Yacine Jernite & Jackie Cheung

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Generation".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Information Extraction
Danqi Chen & Omer Levy

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Information Extraction".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Steven Bedrick & Avi Sil

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Information Retrieval and Text Mining".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Ana Marasovic

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Afra Alishahi & Tal Linzen

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Machine Learning for NLP
Sebastian Ruder & Luke Zettlemoyer

Birds of a Feather meetup session on the topic "Machine Learning for NLP".
This event takes place in Gather.Town.
Open Mentoring sessions
Jack Hessel & Julia Hockenmaier & Marzieh Fadaee & Michael Roth & Mohit Bansal & Noah Smith & Ritwik Banerjee & Steven Bethard & Tim Baldwin & Yevgeni Berzak
Mentoring sessions on various topics, open to everyone (do note that there is a capacity limit of 300).
This event takes place in Zoom.
Undergraduate Student Panel
Chris Brew & tbd
A panel designed for undergraduates attending the conference. We assume that these participants may be interested in pursuing a graduate degree, so we will provide presentations and informal small group conversations that will give people an idea how graduate study works and what research life is like.
This event takes place in Gather.Town.