MELT Workshop

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. 🌍✨

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Keynote talk: RL from world feedback.

Shixiang Shane Gu explains why building AGI requires understanding and collaborating across global markets and talents.

Keynote talk:
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments.

Imanol Schlag introduces Apertus, a fully open suite of LLMs with a focus on compliance, transparency, and multilingual representation training across 1000+ languages. 🌍🤖

📄 Paper: Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations Improve Multilingual Calibration

by Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić and Anna Korhonen

📄 Paper: Why We Build Local Large Language Models: An Observational Analysis from 35 Japanese and Multilingual LLMs

by Koshiro Saito, Sakae Mizuki, Masanari Ohi, Taishi Nakamura, Taihei Shiotani, Koki Maeda, Youmi Ma et. al.

📄 Paper: The Case of Spanish as a Pluricentric Language: Challenging the Monolingual Bias in NLP to Improve Cultural Adequacy of LLMs

by María Grandury and Diana Galvan-Sosa

✨ Excited to kick off the Spotlight Paper Presentations at #MELTWorkshop2025!

These selected papers highlight cutting-edge research on multilingual and equitable language technologies. 🌍📑

Presenters: Koshiro Saito, @mariagrandury.bsky.social , and Ej Zhoo

Papers in the thread 👇

🎤 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. 📚🌐

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🎤 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. 🌍✨

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Come join us in 520D (all the way down the hall and around the corner) at #COLM2025 for the first workshop on multilingual and equitable language technologies!

Just 1 day to go!
Join us tomorrow for the 1st Multilingual & Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025.

📍 Room 520D
🕗 8:45am – 5:00pm

Check the full schedule 👉 melt-workshop.github.io/schedule/

We can’t wait to welcome you! 🌍✨

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⏰ 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!

🔗 openreview.net/group?id=col...
📅 Deadline: July 25, 2025

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🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨
The MELT Workshop Track submission deadline is now June 30, 2025 (AoE).

We still welcome new & unpublished work:
abstracts (≤2 p) | shorts (≤5 p) | longs (≤9 p)

📌 Non-archival
🔗 Submit here → openreview.net/group?id=col...

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🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍

We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team!

🔗 Fill out the interest form: forms.gle/MYcXED7RLJDS...

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📚 Conference Track

Already accepted to COLM 2025?
If your paper aligns with MELT's themes of linguistic & cultural inclusion, we’d love to feature it!

📅 Deadline: July 14, 2025

We’re excited to see your work! 🌐✨

📝 Workshop Track

We welcome novel & unpublished work:
• Extended abstracts (≤2 pages)
• Short papers (≤4 pages)
• Long papers (≤8 pages)

📌 Non-archival
📅 Deadline: June 23, 2025
🔗 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=col...

🚨 Call for Submissions – MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍

We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies.

🛠️ Two tracks:
— Workshop Track
— Conference Track

Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

🌍 ✨ Introducing MELT Workshop 2025: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Equitable Language Technologies
A workshop on building inclusive, culturally-aware LLMs!

🧠 Bridging the language divide in AI
📅 October 10, 2025 Co-located with @colmweb.org
🔗 melt-workshop.github.io

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