| Apr 19, 2026 | Two papers arising from our work on Fanar were accepted to Findings of ACL 2026: MorphBPE: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for Efficient LLM Training and Almieyar-Oryx-BloomBench: A Bilingual Multimodal Benchmark for Cognitively Informed Evaluation of Vision-Language Models. |
| Mar 29, 2026 | SilkRoadNLP workshop held at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco — our initiative on NLP for the Iranian family of languages and cultures along the historical Silk Road. |
| Mar 27, 2026 | We are honored to receive the Best Resource Paper Award at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco! |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Arabic NLP School held at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco — a full-day school on foundational and advanced topics in Arabic language technologies, with over 120 participants selected from 300+ applications. |
| Jan 03, 2026 | Three papers accepted at EACL 2026 — two in the main conference and one in Findings. Congratulations to all co-authors! |