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Our AACL-IJCNLP 2026 tutorial just started, head over to Muhe Hall B to join the conversations on what hard problems does code-switching (CS) data pose to NLP models. We will touch on intro topics discussing what CS is and what we know about how it happens to challenges in evaluation, interpretability, language modelling, speech and other modalities and conclude with open challenges. The website for the tutorial is here: sites.google.com/view/code-swit…

I'm heading to AACL-IJCNLP 2026 @aaclmeeting and I'm looking forward to join the conversations there.
We have a tutorial on code-switching for multilingual LLMs co-presented with @gentaiscool @aliceoh @HaneulYoo13 @juhyunohh @ruochenz_ on Monday morning.
I also want to remind people that we have multiple open rank faculty positions @mbzuai. Come say hi or DM me if you want to know more.

I had the best time visiting @IIMAS_UNAM as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations. The invited colloquium was a great opportunity to share the work by my group and collaborators on multilinguality and low resource languages. The audience was warm but super engaged. This has been the talk with the longest Q&A I had ever experienced to date. It was close to an hour of Q&A on a wide range of topics, from core technical questions to career and even personal choices! I loved touring around one of the first universities of the American continent. Its history traces back to 1551! The research community in Mexico City is thriving and working on a wide range of interesting research questions but I especially loved hearing about efforts to advance NLP technology for, and with, indigenous language communities. Many thanks to @ivanvladimir for inviting me on such a special occasion.

Even if they were not volunteers, treating everyone with respect is a must. Professionalism is key no matter who you are interacting with.

So looking forward to this. I will share findings from my group at @mbzuai and work with collaborators on multilinguality, and low resource languages and what questions we need to continue exploring to reach true multilingual abilities in LLMs. #multilinguality #lowresourcelanguages