A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL)

Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Surendrabikram Thapa, Sana Shams, Ashwini Vaidya, Bal Krishna Bal


Abstract
In this paper, we provide a brief summary of the inaugural workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) held as part of COLING 2025. The workshop included regular papers, invited keynotes, and shared task papers, fostering a collaborative platform for exploring challenges in processing South Asian languages. The shared task focused on Devanagari-script language understanding, encompassing subtasks on language identification, hate speech detection, and target classification. This workshop series aims to address linguistic and cultural nuances, resource constraints, and orthographic complexities in low-resource South Asian languages while advancing NLP research and promoting multilingual inclusivity.
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2025.chipsal-1.1
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025)
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January
Year:
2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Ashwini Vaidya, Bal Krishna Bal, Sana Shams, Surendrabikram Thapa
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CHiPSAL | WS
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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1–8
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Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Surendrabikram Thapa, Sana Shams, Ashwini Vaidya, and Bal Krishna Bal. 2025. A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL). In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025), pages 1–8, Abu Dhabi, UAE. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) (Sarveswaran et al., CHiPSAL 2025)
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