Muslims in ML

NeurIPS Workshop, 8 December 2020, Vancouver, Canada


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Overview

Muslims In ML (MusIML) is an affinity workshop for the NeurIPS community.

We focus on both the potential for advancement and harm to Muslims and those in Muslim-majority countries who religiously identify, culturally associate, or are classified by proximity, as “Muslim”.

The workshop will run on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 from 10:30AM - 1:30PM EST.

We will feature a combination of pre-recorded and live talks, followed by a panel discussion with authors on the intersection of policy, technology, and Muslim communities.

Invited Speakers

Abubakar Abid
Investigating Anti-Muslim Bias in GPT-3 through Words, Images and Stories
Darren Byler
The Digital Enclosure of Turkic Muslims in Northwest China
Mona Diab
Data Paucity and Low Resource Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities
Samhaa El-Beltagy
NLU Meets Islamic Religious Phrases: Highlighting the Challenges
Anver Emon
Taking from the Hands that Give: CRA audits of Muslim-led Charities
Dia Kayyali
The Intersection of Policy, Technology, and Muslims
Roya Pakzad
The Intersection of Policy, Technology, and Muslims
Ted Pedersen
Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media
Nayel Shafei
Creating Multilingual Corpora for Arabic Characterset

Themes

Language and Speech: Many Muslim-majority groups communicate in language that use Arabic character sets, yet there is a gap in learning and machine learning tools that work well in these environments. The following invited talks consider potential solutions such as extending resources to include Arabic character sets to decrease disparity in Arabic-speaking groups.

Algorithmic Bias: These invited talks explore how technology is used to identify ways in which algorithms and models are used to discriminate against Muslim individuals and communities in different contexts.

Schedule

All times in EST.

10:30AM Welcome and Opening Remarks Live
10:35AM Invited Talk: Investigating Anti-Muslim Bias in GPT-3 through Words, Images, & Stories - Abubakar Abid Language and speech Live
11:00AM Invited Talk: Taking from the Hands that Give: CRA audits of Muslim-led Charities - Anver Emon Algorithmic bias Recorded
11:25AM Invited Talk: Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media - Ted Pedersen Algorithmic bias Recorded
11:50AM Invited Talk: The Digital Enclosure of Turkic Muslims in Northwest China - Darren Byler Algorithmic bias Recorded
12:15PM Invited Talk: Creating Multilingual Corpora for Arabic Characterset - Nayel Shafei Language and speech Live
12:30PM Invited Talk: Data Paucity and Low Resource Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities - Mona Diab Language and speech Live
12:45PM Invited Talk: NLU Meets Islamic Religious Phrases: Highlighting the Challenges - Samhaa El-Beltagy Language and speech Live
1:00PM Panel Discussion: The Intersection of Policy, Technology, and Muslims - Roya Pakzad and Dia Kayyali Live