Keynote talk: Optimizing Multilinguality Post Training.
Can multilingual ability be boosted at post training?
Julia Kreutzer from @cohereforai.bsky.social explores RL, test-time scaling & data distillation to improve open-ended tasks across languages. πβ¨
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β¨ Excited to kick off the Spotlight Paper Presentations at #MELTWorkshop2025!
These selected papers highlight cutting-edge research on multilingual and equitable language technologies. ππ
Presenters: Koshiro Saito, @mariagrandury.bsky.social , and Ej Zhoo
Papers in the thread π
π€ Keynote talk: Expanding the Language and Cultural Coverage of Common Crawl.
Pedro Ortiz Suarez highlights the efforts to improve language diversity & cultural representation in web archives, ensuring underserved languages & communities are better represented. ππ
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π€ Keynote talk by Monojit Choudhury on how conversational AI can move beyond static cultural sensitivity toward dynamic, culturally responsive systems.
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Kicking off the 1st Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025 with opening remarks from @abosselut.bsky.social !
Excited to set the stage for a day full of discussions on multilingualism, equity, and the future of NLP. πβ¨
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Just 1 day to go!
Join us tomorrow for the 1st Multilingual & Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025.
π Room 520D
π 8:45am β 5:00pm
Check the full schedule π melt-workshop.github.io/schedule/
We canβt wait to welcome you! πβ¨
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β° Reminder: Conference Track Deadline is July 25!
Have a paper accepted to @colmweb.org that aligns with linguistic & cultural inclusion in LLMs?
Submit it to be featured at MELT 2025!
π openreview.net/group?id=col...
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Deadline: July 25, 2025
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π¨ Deadline Extended π¨
The MELT Workshop Track submission deadline is now June 30, 2025 (AoE).
We still welcome new & unpublished work:
abstracts (β€2 p) | shorts (β€5 p) | longs (β€9 p)
π Non-archival
π Submit here β openreview.net/group?id=col...
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π§βπ» Call for Reviewers β Melt Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 π
We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team!
π Fill out the interest form: forms.gle/MYcXED7RLJDS...
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π¨ Call for Submissions β MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 π
We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies.
π οΈ Two tracks:
β Workshop Track
β Conference Track
Details below β¬οΈ #MeltWorkshop2025
π β¨ Introducing MELT Workshop 2025: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Equitable Language Technologies
A workshop on building inclusive, culturally-aware LLMs!
π§ Bridging the language divide in AI
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October 10, 2025 Co-located with @colmweb.org
π melt-workshop.github.io
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