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Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)

Computation and Language 2024-12-24 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The first Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025) was held in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This workshop mainly aimed to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on language models (LMs) focusing on low-resource languages, following the recent advancements in neural language models and their linguistic biases towards high-resource languages. LoResLM 2025 attracted notable interest from the natural language processing (NLP) community, resulting in 35 accepted papers from 52 submissions. These contributions cover a broad range of low-resource languages from eight language families and 13 diverse research areas, paving the way for future possibilities and promoting linguistic inclusivity in NLP.

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@article{arxiv.2412.16365,
  title  = {Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)},
  author = {Hansi Hettiarachchi and Tharindu Ranasinghe and Paul Rayson and Ruslan Mitkov and Mohamed Gaber and Damith Premasiri and Fiona Anting Tan and Lasitha Uyangodage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16365},
  year   = {2024}
}

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The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)