Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle
with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages.
LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages.
LoResLM 2025 will be a physical workshop co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi on 20th January 2025.
We are looking forward to welcoming you at LoResLM 2025 in Abu Dhabi.
The workshop is supported in part by CLARIN-UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Infrastructure for Digital Arts and Humanities programme.
>> Keynote Speaker
Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University.
>> Organising Committee
Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK
Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK
Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany
>> Programme Committee
Gábor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France
Samuel Cahyawijaya - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK
Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany
Raj Dabre - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden
Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK
Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland
Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou - McGill University, Canada
Daan van Esch - Google
Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK
Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland
Amal Htait - Aston University, UK
Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia
Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK
Daisy Lal - Lancaster University, UK
Colin Leong - University of Dayton, USA
Veronika Lipp - Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary
Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK
Farhad Nooralahzadeh - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rrubaa Panchendrarajan - Queen Mary University of London, UK
Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK
Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nishat Raihan - George Mason University, USA
Omid Rohanian - University of Oxford, UK
Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia
Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK
Archchana Sindhujan - University of Surrey, UK
Claytone Sikasote - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Marjana Prifti Skenduli - University of New York Tirana, Albania
Uthayasanker Thayasivam - University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
John Vidler - Lancaster University, UK
Phil Weber - Aston University, UK
Bryan Wilie - Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Artūrs Znotiņš - University of Latvia, Latvia