Our complete program schedule is now online (and in Whova): colmweb.org/schedule.html

Keynote spotlight #5: the third of COLM (and last day of the main conference) will open with a keynote by Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic)

Keynote spotlight #4: the second day of COLM will close with @ghadfield.bsky.social from JHU talking about human society alignment, and lessons for AI alignment

As we are spotlighting these last few days, let's also spotlight the spotlights. COLM 2025 has 24 spotlight papers that will be presented as plenary orals 👏

Keynote spotlight #3: COLM's second day will open with some *real* intelligence 🧠🧠🧠 with Tom Griffiths from Princeton

Keynote spotlight #2: COLM's first-day afternoon session will go polymathic 🔭 with Shirley Ho 🌌 from the Flatiron Institute

Keynote spotlight #1: COLM will open on Oct 7 with a keynote by @lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social about mixed-modals models 🌈

We are excited to welcome @qveraliao.bsky.social to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org for her invited talk "Facilitating Appropriate Reliance on AI: Lessons from HCI Research"! October 10 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal!

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

We are excited to welcome Bertram F. Malle of Brown University to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Could Generative Language Models Have Moral Trustworthiness?" #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

COLM 2025 accepted submissions are now public: openreview.net/group?id=col... Congratulations to all the authors, and see you all in Montreal!

The draft programme and list of accepted papers at ORIGen 2025 @ @colmweb.org is now available! We look forward to an excellent workshop in October! #AI #NLP #LLMs

Authors, your camera ready is due today!

Several application deadlines tomorrow (July 31!): financial assistance, volunteers, and childcare financial assistance. Also, we are proud to announce the COLM Children's Program -- our affordable (and fun!) program for children All linked from colmweb.org

COLM 2025 is now accepting applications for: Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Volunteer Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Childcare Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... All due by July 31

The list of accepted papers for COLM 2025 is now available here: colmweb.org/AcceptedPape... The papers will be made available around mid August, following the camera ready deadline

The ORIGen workshop @colmweb.org is accepting late-breaking submissions until July 14!

@colmweb.org decisions are out, and so are we The strength of submissions this year amazed us! Many many hard decisions 😩 + Aditi, @eunsol.bsky.social , @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social 😴😴😴

Delighted that ✨Mor Geva (@megamor2.bsky.social) and ✨Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) will complete our speaker line-up and talk about the INTERPLAY of model internals and behavior. Be there and submit by June 30th 📄 shorturl.at/sBomu See you in 🇨🇦 @colmweb.org #nlproc #interpretability

We extended the deadline so submissions to ORIGen at @colmweb.org are still due in one week! Submit by June 27! See you in 🇨🇦 #AI #NLP #LLMs

Excited that ✨John Hewitt (shorturl.at/t4qOm) and ✨Aaron Mueller (@amuuueller.bsky.social) will talk in person about how model internals and behavior relate at the INTERPLAY workshop. Be there and submit by June 23rd 📄 shorturl.at/sBomu See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 @colmweb.org #nlproc #interpretability

Submissions are due to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org in one week! #AI #NLP #HCI

COLM 2025 will include 6 plenary sessions. The details about the format (panel vs. keynote) and topic will come up soon. We are excited to have our plenary sessions led by experts displaying the broad impact and intellectual spectrum of language modeling. Registration is now open

We are making progress on discussions, but also running out of time. Discussion ends tomorrow. Reviewers and ACs, please get jiggy with it! 💃🕺 Updated stats in the next message ⬇️

We are doing our best to encourage engagement during the discussion period. It's moving, even if we wish folks would engage more. 🫵🫵🫵Reviewers, please login, read author responses, consider them, write back! 🫵ACs🫵, we need your help too :)

🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team! 🔗 Fill out the interest form: forms.gle/MYcXED7RLJDS... #MELTWorkshop2025

🚨 Call for Submissions – MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies. 🛠️ Two tracks: — Workshop Track — Conference Track Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

🌍 ✨ Introducing MELT Workshop 2025: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Equitable Language Technologies A workshop on building inclusive, culturally-aware LLMs! 🧠 Bridging the language divide in AI 📅 October 10, 2025 Co-located with @colmweb.org 🔗 melt-workshop.github.io #MeltWorkshop2025

The 2nd stage of the discussion period has now started. The intermediate response deadline was very effective, so now we have plenty of time for ACs, reviewers, and authors to discuss! Let's get that red curve up! 📈📈📈

Are LM more than their behavior? Join our @colmweb.org workshop and explore the interplay between what LMs answer and what happens internally ✨ See you in Montréal 🍁 CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX Reviewer Nomination: shorturl.at/Jg1BP #nlproc #interpretability

Call for papers! We are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals with @mlcommons.org and @eleutherai.bsky.social, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality! Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org

Happy to announce the first workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models — PragLM @ COLM 2025! 🎉 How do LLMs engage in pragmatic reasoning, and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach? 🌐 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/ 📅 Submit by June 23rd

✨Call for papers!✨ @commoncrawl.bsky.social and friends are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality! Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org

Our discussion period just started. Authors, please read our instructions carefully. We require responses by June 2. But, what you really want to hear about is stats .... right? -> 🧵

The full list of COLM 2025 workshops is now online: colmweb.org/Workshops.html Most deadlines are June 23, but check the specific CFP of each workshop for the details

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!! Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE #COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior? Join our @colmweb.org workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs. Deadline: June 23rd CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX We're excited to see your insights and methods!! See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability

LLMs are all around us, but how can we foster reliable and accountable interactions with them?? To discuss these problems, we will host the first ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org! Submissions welcome from NLP, HCI, CogSci, and anything human-centered, due June 20 :) origen-workshop.github.io

📢 The SoLaR workshop will be collocated with COLM! @colmweb.org SoLaR is a collaborative forum for researchers working on responsible development, deployment and use of language models. We welcome both technical and sociotechnical submissions, deadline July 5th!

Workshop proposals due in 5 days -- April 14! Details here: colmweb.org/cfw.html

Recovering from submitting to COLM? Now is the time to prepare your workshop proposal! Due April 14. Workshops will take place Oct 10 colmweb.org/cfw.html

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Reminder: the COLM full paper deadline is March 28 AoE (this is the updated deadline, please don't get confused)

While you are preparing your full paper submission (due March 28), we bet you have some great workshop ideas! Due April 14 colmweb.org/cfw.html Get your colleagues together and propose your workshop for the FIRST round of COLM workshops

Reminder: the abstract deadline is today (March 22) AoE "visualize a cartoonish llama rolling down a medieval gate. The gate is 1/3 down. Above the gate it says "abstract submission""... clearly there are still some open problems 🤦🤦🤦

Just a reminder that COLM's abstract registration window is still open, and you can submit your abstract until **March 22 AoE** Full paper deadline was also extended to March 28