Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to the North Africans in ML affinity group workshop https://sites.google.com/view/northafricansinml/cfp, which will take place at NeurIPS 2022. The workshop will include talks, poster sessions, as well as a shared task relating to ML in North Africa. We will have both archival and non-archival tracks and invited talks. Junior researchers and students interested in NLP from North African institutions and beyond (academia and industry) are welcome to present their new work as well as completed or ongoing research projects or ideas.

All nationalities are welcome! Authors of non-archival papers can choose to have their abstracts, bios, and posters posted on our website. NeurIPS D&I will provide some travel grants and registration fee waivers to the participants. Please note that all participants are encouraged to apply for NeurIPS registration fee waivers.

We welcome submissions related to any topic of Machine Learning and NLP. You can visit our website: https://sites.google.com/view/northafricansinml/.

*Important dates*

Oct 14th: Extended abstract (2 pages), short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) paper submission deadline

Nov 1st: Notification of acceptance

Nov 15th: Camera ready submission deadline

Nov 15th: Poster submission deadline

Dec 5th: Virtual Workshop

Shared Task tentative schedule

Aug 15th: Registration opens (https://forms.gle/zdZgkNZovFwm9BEX7)

Sept 25th: Releasing the training data

Oct 10th: Releasing the dev data

Nov 8th: Releasing the test data

Nov 10th: System submission deadline

Nov 15th: System description paper deadline

Nov 15th: Poster submission deadline

Dec 5th: Virtual Workshop

Best regards, The organisers.