Dear ACL 2025 Attendees:

ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference!

The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/. Session titles and times are listed below:

Mon, Jul 28

SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez

Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber

Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma

Tue, Jul 29

Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja

Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui

Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs

NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz

Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib

EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo

Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth

Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu

Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli

Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang

Wed, Jul 30

Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini

Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad

Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia.

Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef

Dear ACL 2025 Attendees:

ACL will feature a lineup of 18 Birds of a Feather (BoF) and Affinity Group events to bring together participants around shared research topics, professional experiences, and community affiliations. The hosts of these events are looking forward to welcoming you to the conference!

The full schedule with session descriptions has been released on the conference website https://2025.aclweb.org/program/bof/. Session titles and times are listed below:

Mon, Jul 28

SomosNLP: The Iberoamerican NLP Community 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: María Grandury, Selene Báez, Diana Galván, Helena Gómez, Danae Sánchez

Queer in AI Meet-Up 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Sabine Weber

Mentorship on NLP Research 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Oana Ignat, Weijia Shi, Ziqiao Ma

Tue, Jul 29

Navigating Challenges in Building Industrial LLM Applications 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Gauri Kholkar, Aakash Bist, Ratinder Ahuja

Humanists in NLP 10:30 - 12:00, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Patrick Sui

Teaching NLP 12:00 - 13:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Laura Biester, György Kovacs

NLP x Graphs: Where Structure Meets Language 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Yuqicheng Zhu, Moritz Plenz

Southeast Asian NLP Community, Projects, and Beyond 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Fajri Koto, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, M. Reza Qorib

EquiCL Welcome Session 14:00 - 15:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Zeerak Talat, Christine de Kock, Fatima Elsafoury, Jackie Lo

Learning and Reasoning for Structured Data 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth

Multilingualism: from data crawling to evaluation 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Pinzhen Chen, Andrey Kutuzov, Letiția Pârcălăbescu

Participatory Design for NLP 16:00 - 17:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Gavin Abercrombie, Tommaso Caselli

Bridging Human Study and LLM Agents for Social Simulation 16:00 - 17:30, online only (Underline) Hosts: Xuan Wang

Wed, Jul 30

Activations & Embeddings: Cognitive-Neuroscience Methods for LLMs 9:00 - 10:30, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Giovanni Franco Gabriel Marraffini

Mothering the Future — In Life and in AI: Challenges, Support, and the Path Forward for Mothers in Computing 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Narjis Asad

Language Technology for Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) 11:00 - 12:30, ballroom 1.33 Hosts: Belu Ticona, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Will Lewis, Fei Xia.

Ethical Considerations for NLP and CL 12:30 - 14:00, ballroom 1.14 Hosts: Margot Mieskes, Karën Fort, Fanny Ducel, Clémentine Bleuze, Aurélie Névéol Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) 12:45 - 14:15, ballroom 1.31-1.32 Hosts: Ehsaneddin Asgari, Suleiman Ali Khan, Ahmed Youssef