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Working on the diversity section. Do you believe it is best to use their suggested subsections? - in which case, we are weak on the third point, "diversifying participation" (which states: "providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers, and so on"). Or is it better to make it one long paragraph instead, like last time but extended?
I'm copying their instructions below:
6 Diversity and Inclusion The proposals should describe potential ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal:
Contribution to academic diversity: The pro- posals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on.
Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP initiative, we recognize the current prob- lems of demographic imbalance in the field. There- fore, we particularly encourage submissions includ- ing members of under-represented groups in compu- tational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, or- ganizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrep- resented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences.
Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to at- tend and submit to the workshop, e.g. providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM Ori Amir <oriacadem@gmail.commailto:oriacadem@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you Tristan!
I will resume working on it tomorrow and will try to finish it. I’ll incorporate your and others diversity suggestions.
Ori
On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 22:59 Tristan Miller <Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.camailto:Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca> wrote: 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.
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