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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026

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The 6th edition of our workshop will be co-located with EMNLP in Budapest, Hungary! sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.html

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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
MRL Decisions have been released! 🎉 Congratulations to all the accepted papers :) Please take note that the camera-ready deadline is now on September 25 (AoE). Please check sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.h... for more information. We hope to see y'all in the workshop!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
OpenReview Submission Link: openreview.net/group?id=EMN... MRL 2026 Workshop: sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.html
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EMNLP 2026 Workshop MRL
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for EMNLP 2026 Workshop MRL
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Not satisfied with your ARR Meta-Reviews? Don't worry, give your work another chance by submitting it to the MRL Workshop at @emnlpmeeting! We also accept papers reviewed in past ARR cycles, deadline on Sept 4! #EMLNP #NLP
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We are super impressed by the submissions for Phase 1 of the MRL Shared Task! :) In order for us to thoroughly review the datasets, we will extend the deadline to August 14! The audio collection phase will now happen in September. Please stay tuned here (or on Discord) for more updates!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Three weeks left before the direct submission deadline on August 10! Submit your work at MRL 2026 (co-located w/ @emnlpmeeting) and meet fellow multilingual NLP researchers! OpenReview Submission link: openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MRL More info: sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.h...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🎤 Speaker lineup drop! The MRL 2026 Workshop is bringing academia and industry together: @afaji.bsky.social , MBZUAI @mdlhx.bsky.social , KU Leuven @jumelet.bsky.social , Uni of Groningen Ahmet Üstün, Cohere See you all this October in Budapest! #EMNLP #MRL2026
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
See the full task description and information about how to contribute on our website: mrlbenchmarks.github.io. We look forward to building this dataset together!
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MRL 2026 Shared Task — MRL Benchmarks
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
You can fill in this form to receive updates on the project and get information about how to get involved: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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MRL Shared Task 2026 Interest Form
Thank you for your interest in the 2026 MRL Shared Task. We are creating a community-led multilingual QA benchmark for text and audio. Please fill out this form so we can contact you with more details...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We listened to your feedback and this year the task will be multimodal: it will be available as a text or a speech-to-text task. We hope this represents real use cases and demands from users that use primarily spoken languages.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This year, the task will be question and answers in the style of ECLeKTic. Contributors are to compose questions that only people from a particular country or region are likely to know and questions should be culture- and language-specific.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
After the enthusiasm of the shared task last year, we are running another shared task to create a community-made, culturally relevant multilingual benchmark! The deadline to contribute is August 1 AoE. See more details below.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Check out the dataset now: Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.24081 Datasets: huggingface.co/mrlbenchmarks
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Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we present Global PIQA, a ...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thank you to all of the authors who made this dataset possible!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you missed out on contributing to Global PIQA and want to get involved, we will be announcing a new project soon. Fill in this form to be the first to hear about it: forms.gle/Rw1pL5mr4DZg...
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MRL Shared Task 2026 Interest Form
Thank you for your interest in the 2026 MRL Shared Task. We are creating a community-led multilingual QA benchmark for text and audio. Please fill out this form so we can contact you with more details...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Across all the best models and systems, there are steep performance drops for lower-resource languages and under-represented regions, especially Subsaharan Africa.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Open-weight models still struggle on some of the languages with the best model (Gemma 4 31B) achieving 82.4% on the parallel split and 84.9% on the non-parallel split.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We created a new parallel split, where we created an original dataset and machine translated it into 131 languages, and contributors corrected those translations. This split can be used to better compare performance across languages.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The original non-parallel split has been expanded to include 20 additional language varieties, including Zarma, Odia, Basque, Plateau Malagasy, Batak Karo, and more!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We are releasing an expanded version of Global PIQA! It now covers 141 language varieties and includes parallel and non-parallel splits. We are also releasing an updated preprint.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Organizers: David Adelani, David Stap, @catherinearnett.bsky.social , @tylerachang.bsky.social , @gentaiscool.bsky.social , @cmdowney.com , @crystinaz.bsky.social , Jesujoba Alabi, Senyu Li, @jiruiqi.bsky.social , @ljvmiranda.bsky.social
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📢 Call for Papers: 6th Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop at EMNLP in Budapest, Hungary! Join us and submit your works relating to multilingual NLP Speakers to be announced, so stay tuned! 👀 More info in the CFP: 🔗 sigtyp.github.io/ws2026-mrl.html
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Announcing the two Best Paper Awards for this year’s workshop. Congratulations to all the authors for your great work!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Finally, we recognize the Hawaiian submission to the shared task. Thank you for your contributions!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The second is 7PERFECTION, a dataset for seven Nigerian languages!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The first of our best contribution awards goes to AraPIQA!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We would like to recognize three honorable mention submissions. Great work!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This afternoon, @catherinearnett.bsky.social presented the result of the shared task and presented the best contribution awards. Congratulations to all contributors!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
@aliceatkaist.bsky.social joins us to give the final keynote of the day about code switching in multilingual language models!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Join us in hall C3 at posters 137-168 for our in-person poster session. Join us online on Zoom via Underline for our virtual poster session!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Now Pontus Stenetorp shares an oral history of UK-LLM!
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Gorka Urbizu Garmendia @gorkaurbizu.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Tomorrow, I'll be presenting (virtually) our research from @orainlp.bsky.social on pre-training SLMs for low-resource languages as a poster during the @mrl-workshop.bsky.social. Come check it out! 📝 aclanthology.org/2025.mrl-mai...
Research poster of the paper "Sub-1B Language Models for Low-resource Languages: Training Strategies and Insights for Basque."
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
@kellymarchisio.bsky.social from Cohere presents “Building Multilingual LLMs in Industry”, sharing insights on training multilinguality at scale!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We have kicked off proceedings with some brief opening remarks from @catherinearnett.bsky.social
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We are kicking off this year’s workshop in Suzhou at #EMNLP2025! Come join us in room A106-107 or online!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.24081 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/mrl...
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Global PIQA: Evaluating Physical Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we present Global PIQA, a ...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It’s not too late to get involved! Until early 2026, we will be accepting submissions for languages not already represented in Global PIQA. If you’re interested, please fill out this form and we will contact you with details! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Global PIQA Contributor Interest Form
Thanks for your interest in contributing to Global PIQA! Please fill out the form and we will contact you with details about how to get involved!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There are seven languages where even the best proprietary LLM scores less than 80% (chance: 50%). Sub-Saharan African languages lag behind Western European languages by ~15%. Thus Global PIQA highlights languages which are very poorly served by large, proprietary models.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The top proprietary models achieve ~90% accuracy, which falls short of human accuracy (~95%). The best open models perform significantly worse, with the best open model performance from Gemma 3 (27B) at 82.4%.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This dataset is created and owned by the contributors, all of whom were offered authorship. We believe this is more fair to annotators and is likely to result in a higher-quality dataset, as it is constructed by the NLP researchers who will use it.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Global PIQA includes subsets for 116 unique language varieties. These cover five continents, 14 language families, and 23 writing systems. Over 50% of examples reference local foods, customs, traditions, or other culturally-specific elements.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Introducing Global PIQA, a new multilingual benchmark for 100+ languages. This benchmark is the outcome of this year’s MRL shared task, in collaboration with 300+ researchers from 65 countries. This dataset evaluates physical commonsense reasoning in culturally relevant contexts.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We are in need of some emergency reviewers for MRL. If you are available, please fill out this form!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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5TH MULTILINGUAL REPRESENTATION LEARNING (MRL) WORKSHOP @EMNLP 2025
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This year MRL is also accepting papers that have been submitted to ARR and have received reviews and a metareview! Submit your papers by September 23rd! See the workshop website for details on how to submit ⬇️
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Correct, you can submit ARR papers that already have their reviews by Sep 23. More instructions soon! TBD on whether the workshop will be hybrid.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
We extended the deadline by one day, so you have until the end of today (Aug 24) AoE to submit! Good luck!
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Check out more information, including answers to FAQs: docs.google.com/presentation...
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MRL 2025 Shared Task Info Meeting
MRL 2025 Shared Task at EMNLP: Multilingual Physical Commonsense Reasoning Datasets Info meeting, 2025/08/14 Contact: mrl2025-workshop@googlegroups.com Last updated: 2025/08/14
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
If you plan to participate, fill in this google form so we can better plan the shared task: forms.gle/zxhpCfL6wvBz...
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MRL Shared Task volunteers
Call for participation to create physical reasoning datasets for various languages! While there has been much progress in developing benchmarks for diverse languages, we still have very few multiling...
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We have over 200 volunteers now for 90+ languages! We are hoping to expand the diversity of our language coverage and are still looking for participants who speak these languages. Check out how to get involved below, and please help us spread the word!
We are still actively looking for volunteers speaking the following languages (or other languages not listed):
Afrikaans, Aymara, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Burmese, Cebuano, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Irish, Karakalpak, Khmer, Kirghiz, Lao, Latvian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Mongolian, Nahuatl, Navajo/Diné, Norwegian Nynorsk, Quechua, Romanian, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Shona, Somali, Tatar, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Waray, Walloon, Welsh, Yiddish, Zulu.
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Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl-workshop.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The deadline for MRL at #EMNLP2025 is next week! ⏰ Submission Deadline: August 23rd (AoE) 🔗 CfP: sigtyp.github.io/ws2025-mrl.h...
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