Starting in 2003 when the first MWE workshop was held with ACL in Sapporo, Japan, this year, the joint workshop of MWE-UD co-located with the LREC-COLING 2024 conference marked the 20th anniversary of MWE workshop events over the past nearly two decades. Standing at this milestone, we look back to this workshop series and summarise the research topics and methodologies researchers have carried out over the years. We also discuss the current challenges that we are facing and the broader impacts/synergies of MWE research within the CL and NLP fields. Finally, we give future research perspectives. We hope this position paper can help researchers, students, and industrial practitioners interested in MWE get a brief but easy understanding of its history, current, and possible future.

This paper introduces the CLASSLA-Express workshop series as an innovative approach to disseminating linguistic resources and infrastructure provided by the CLASSLA Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages and the Slovenian CLARIN.SI infrastructure. The workshop series employs two key strategies: (1) conducting workshops directly in countries with interested audiences, and (2) designing the series for easy expansion to new venues. The first iteration of the CLASSLA-Express workshop series encompasses 6 workshops in 5 countries. Its goal is to share knowledge on the use of corpus querying tools, as well as the recently-released CLASSLA-web corpora - the largest general corpora for South Slavic languages. In the paper, we present the design of the workshop series, its current scope and the effortless extensions of the workshop to new venues that are already in sight.

Generative AI platforms and features are permeating many aspects of work. Entrepreneurs from lean economies in particular are well positioned to outsource tasks to generative AI given limited resources. In this paper, we work to address a growing disparity in use of these technologies by building on a four-year partnership with a local entrepreneurial hub dedicated to equity in tech and entrepreneurship. Together, we co-designed an interactive workshops series aimed to onboard local entrepreneurs to generative AI platforms. Alongside four community-driven and iterative workshops with entrepreneurs across five months, we conducted interviews with 15 local entrepreneurs and community providers. We detail the importance of communal and supportive exposure to generative AI tools for local entrepreneurs, scaffolding actionable use (and supporting non-use), demystifying generative AI technologies by Figure 1: We designed an introductory generative AI workshop emphasizing entrepreneurial power, while simultaneously deconstructing series with entrepreneurs and tech providers which centered the veneer of simplicity to address the many operational communal experience, supportive exposure, tangible skills needed for successful application.

There are 5 modules of 2.5 hours duration each; and include live demos, quiz and hands-on assignments. Each session will be introduced by an opening core-note by leading data scientists and AI influencers. Season 2 of Microsoft'Week of AI' will focus on skilling with deep technical sessions on data science and conversational AI. The content is designed to prepare the attendees for industry recognized certifications. Season 1 of'Week of AI' sessions covered the basics of AI and introduction to data science and machine learning.

The First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA) will be held at the Cyberjustice Laboratory at the University of Montreal on June 17th. This workshop is part of the 17th International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL), a biennial conference which has served as an important forum at the intersection the AI and the law since its founding in 1987. The LegalAIIA workshop itself is an offshoot of the successful decade-long DESI (Discovery for Electronically Stored Informed) workshop series, which was pivotal in helping forge an interdisciplinary community of legal and technical practitioners working on advancing the state-of-the-art in electronic discovery practice. The first edition of Legal AIIA, driven by an impressive set of electronic discovery veterans including Jack G. Conrad (Thomson Reuters), Jeremy Pickens (Catalyst Repository Systems), Amanda Jones (H5), Hans Henseler (Magnet Forensics), and Jason R. Baron (Drinker, Biddle & Reath), aims to tackle head on the issue of human-AI collaboration. Accepted papers will focus on evaluating when and how to best leverage a "human-in-the-loop" approach to AI.