Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026

The 6th edition of our workshop will be co-located with EMNLP in Budapest, Hungary!

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Check out the dataset now:
Preprint: https://t.co/uIT8XHjP6b
Datasets: https://t.co/wtZrYit6vi

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We are releasing an expanded version of Global PIQA! It now covers 141 language varieties and includes parallel and non-parallel splits. We are also releasing an updated preprint.

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Thank you to all of the authors who made this dataset possible!

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@davlanade @gentaiscool @ljvmiranda @linguist_cat @tylerachang @davidstap @cmdowney @crystina_z Organizers: @davlanade, @crystina_z, @Jirui_Qi,@cmdowney, @gentaiscool, Senyu Li, @alabi_jesujoba, @linguist_cat, @tylerachang, @davidstap, @ljvmiranda

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📢 Call for Papers:

6th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP in Budapest, Hungary!
Join us and submit your works relating to multilingual NLP

Speakers to be announced, so stay tuned! 👀

More info in the CFP:
🔗 https://t.co/ZnQjqyBASQ

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Announcing the two Best Paper Awards for this year’s workshop. Congratulations to all the authors for your great work!

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Finally, we recognize the Hawaiian submission to the shared task. Thank you for your contributions!

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This afternoon, @linguist_cat presented the result of the shared task and presented the best contribution awards. Congratulations to all contributors!

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Introducing Global PIQA, a new multilingual benchmark for 100+ languages. This benchmark is the outcome of this year’s MRL shared task, in collaboration with 300+ researchers from 65 countries. This dataset evaluates physical commonsense reasoning in culturally relevant contexts.

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The second is 7PERFECTION, a dataset for seven Nigerian languages!

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@aliceoh joins us to give the final keynote of the day about code switching in multilingual language models!

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We have kicked off proceedings with some brief opening remarks

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The 5th Mulutlingual Representation Leraning Workshop at EMNLP @mrl_workshop just started.

@linguist_cat gave an opening remark.

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Join us in hall C3 at posters 137-168 for our in-person poster session. Join us online on Zoom via Underline for our virtual poster session!

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Thanks for a great poster session, both in person and online!