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ACL 2022 Highlights

Sebastian Ruder

This was my first in-person conference since ACL 2019. This is also my first conference highlights post since NAACL 2019. The initiative focuses on making Computational Linguistics (CL) research accessible in 60 languages and across all modalities, including text/speech/sign language translation, closed captioning, and dubbing.

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The State of Multilingual AI

Sebastian Ruder

Initiatives   The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has emphasized the importance of language diversity, with a special theme track at the main ACL 2022 conference on this topic. Writing System and Speaker Metadata for 2,800+ Language Varieties. Proceedings of NAACL 2019, Tutorial Abstracts. Winata, G.