Here are three of us outside the Lingotto Conference Center in Turin, Italy, site of LREC-COLING 2024, held from May 20-25. From left to right: Shadi Manafi, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Abhijnan Nath, and Ibrahim Khebour.

I am beyond excited that we have been awarded a contract on the DARPA Friction and Accountability in Conversational Transactions (FACT) AI Exploration program! Our project, TRACE: Transparency, Reflection, and Accountability in Conversational Exchanges, will address a lack of “friction” (deliberation and reflective reasoning) in LLMs that prevent them from...

We are delighted to be 3 for 3 on submissions to LREC-COLING 2024, the first Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation! The accepted papers are: