Dear all,

On 2026-08-27 19:59, Ori Amir wrote:
> I have completed the draft for "Workshop Topics and Content" in the
> Overleaf project Tristan shared (here: https://www.overleaf.com/
> project/6a8f1f0cc5dc0fce3fef5e40 <https://www.overleaf.com/
> project/6a8f1f0cc5dc0fce3fef5e40>). It is 90% recycled from our previous
> proposals and the introduction section of the EJHR paper I just wrote
> with Kiki and Ruch. It seems to do the job of selling the workshop, but
> I am not attached to any of it, so feel free to edit/replace any of
> it. It seems like this year they want a shorter content description and
> no abstract, so I reduced everything to ~300 words. I believe we are
> allowed up to 100 more.
>
> I also copied the committee list from last year - with the appropriate
> formatting updates.
>
> I'll be on the road from Friday to Sunday. I'll try to get more of the
> sections done before then, but I'll finish what I don't when I'm back.
> What I can use help with especially is the diversity subsections, as
> well as suggestions for additional keynote invitees.


I wrote the Invited Speaker, Workshop Size/Prior Events, Shared Tasks,
and Preferred Venue sections. (The latter I promoted from \paragraph to
\section to correct what looked like a structural error in the
template.) I updated my own biography in the Workshop Organizers
section.  In the Program Committee section, I revised the estimate of
number submissions down from 30–40 to 15–30 (in line with actual numbers
for our last two workshops) and trimmed the PC list to the most active 30.

I didn't have time to touch the Diversity and Inclusion section, whose
text is still that from the template instructions.  Perhaps someone
could copy in and expand the text from the previous proposal (reproduced
below) to make it better fit the instructions and what we discussed in
our most recent meeting?  For example, we could talk a bit more about:

* ...how humour is a relatively understudied area of NLP, so our
workshop increases thematic diversity within the field;

* ...the multi-/interdisciplinary aspect of computational humour and how
we are specifically guiding NLP researchers towards incorporating ideas,
theories, and resources from other fields;

* ...how our selection of invited speakers and/or PC members supports
the above two points

Regards,
Tristan


Diversity and Inclusion Efforts: The workshop advances diversity through
multilingual and multicultural computational humor research, led by a
geographically, demographically, linguistically, and disciplinarily
diverse Organizing Committee with expertise in fields like computer
science, linguistics, neuroscience, and entertainment. Drawing on a
global network, the Committee will issue targeted calls for papers to
reach diverse scholars internationally, and has already secured
participation of invited speakers who are new to the *ACL community.
Half of our invited panelists and PC members are women.


--
Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792
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