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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.
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.
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 |