Call for papers for the COLING-2025 workshop: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (IndoNLP2025)

Date: 20th January 2025 (full day) Venue: Abu Dhabi, UAE Webpage: https://indonlp-workshop.github.io/IndoNLP-Workshop/ Submission Deadline: 5 November 2024 Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/IndoNLP25/

Workshop description The rapid advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of computational linguistics. However, Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (IADL), which represent a significant portion of South Asia's linguistic heritage, remain under-resourced and under-researched in these technological developments. This workshop aims to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers, linguists, and technologists to focus on the unique challenges and opportunities. Participants will explore innovative methods for creating and annotating digital corpora, develop speech and language technologies suited to IADL, and promote interdisciplinary collaborations. By leveraging LLMs, we seek to address the complexities of syntax, morphology, and semantics in these languages to enhance the performance of NLP applications. Furthermore, the workshop will provide a platform for sharing best practices, tools, and resources, enhancing the digital infrastructure necessary for language preservation. Through collaborative efforts, we aim to build a research community to advance NLP for IADL, contributing to linguistic diversity and cultural preservation in the digital age.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models for Indo-Aryan Languages and Dravidian Languages. - Developing a cleaned Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language corpus (UNICODE) and digital linguistic resources. - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Systems - Speech Technologies: Recognition and Synthesis - Language Identification and Dialect Detection - Information Extraction, OCR systems and Knowledge Modelling - NLP Applications - Fake News, Spam, and Rumour Detection - Hate speech and Offensive Language Detection - Sentiment Analysis and Text Summarisation - NLP applications: Misinformation, Conspiracy theories. Rumours, SPAM, Phishing, and similar applications.

Submission & Publication Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: - Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for references if needed) - Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for references if needed)

At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix.

To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: - Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip - Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx - Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-procee...

All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform via STARThttps://softconf.com/coling2025/IndoNLP25/. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: November 5, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 25, 2024 - Camera-ready paper: December 13, 2024 - Workshop date: January 20, 2025

Organising Committee - Ruvan Weerasinghe, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka - Isuri Anuradha, Lancaster University, UK - Deshan Sumanathilaka, Swansea University, UK - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK - Chamila Liyanage, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka - Fahad Khan, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale in CNR, Italy - Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University, UK - Asim Abbas, Birmingham University, UK - Ruslan Mitkov Lancaster University, UK - Julian Hough, Swansea University, UK - Nicholas Micallef, Swansea University, UK - Naomi Krishnarajah, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka Programme Committee - Randil Pushpanandha, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Dulip Herath, Queensland University,Australia - Daisy Lal, Lancaster University, UK - Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK - Venkatesh Raju, Stealth Mode AI Startup, India - Gayanath Chandrasena, University of Helsinki, Finland - Kaza Sri Sai Swaroop, IBM, India - Asanka Wasala,Dell Technologies, Ireland - Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran - University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Sinnathamby Mahesan - University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Nishantha Medagoda - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand - Prasan Yapa, Kyoto University of Advance Science, Japan - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK - Lochandaka Ranathunga, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka - Kaneeka Vidanage, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka - Achala Aponso, Edith Cowan University, Australia - Rajitha Jayasinghe, University of Westminster, UK, - Arjumand Younus, University College Dublin, Ireland - Abdul Nazeer, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India - Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - Tanmoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India - Tirthankar Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - Girish Nath Jha, School for Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU, India - Arka Majhi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - Anand Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India - Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India - Abdullah Alzahrani, Swansea University, Wales, UK

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