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title = "Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages ({L}o{R}es{LM} 2025)",
author = "Hettiarachchi, Hansi and
Ranasinghe, Tharindu and
Rayson, Paul and
Mitkov, Ruslan and
Gaber, Mohamed and
Premasiri, Damith and
Tan, Fiona Anting and
Uyangodage, Lasitha Randunu Chandrakantha",
editor = "Hettiarachchi, Hansi and
Ranasinghe, Tharindu and
Rayson, Paul and
Mitkov, Ruslan and
Gaber, Mohamed and
Premasiri, Damith and
Tan, Fiona Anting and
Uyangodage, Lasitha",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.1/",
pages = "1--8",
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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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)
%A Hettiarachchi, Hansi
%A Ranasinghe, Tharindu
%A Rayson, Paul
%A Mitkov, Ruslan
%A Gaber, Mohamed
%A Premasiri, Damith
%A Tan, Fiona Anting
%A Uyangodage, Lasitha Randunu Chandrakantha
%Y Hettiarachchi, Hansi
%Y Ranasinghe, Tharindu
%Y Rayson, Paul
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
%Y Gaber, Mohamed
%Y Premasiri, Damith
%Y Tan, Fiona Anting
%Y Uyangodage, Lasitha
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F hettiarachchi-etal-2025-overview
%X 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.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.1/
%P 1-8
Markdown (Informal)
[Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025)](https://aclanthology.org/2025.loreslm-1.1/) (Hettiarachchi et al., LoResLM 2025)
ACL
- Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Paul Rayson, Ruslan Mitkov, Mohamed Gaber, Damith Premasiri, Fiona Anting Tan, and Lasitha Randunu Chandrakantha Uyangodage. 2025. Overview of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025). In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages, pages 1–8, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.