Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025)

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor 2025-12 Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India text conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 mmloso-ws-2025-1 https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.0/ Artwork Interpretation with Vision Language Models: A Case Study on Emotions and Emotion Symbols Sebastian Padó author Kerstin Thomas author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 pado-thomas-2025-artwork https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.1/ 2025-12 1 12 Toward Automatic Safe Driving Instruction: A Large-Scale Vision Language Model Approach Haruki Sakajo author Hiroshi Takato author Hiroshi Tsutsui author Komei Soda author Hidetaka Kamigaito author Taro Watanabe author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 sakajo-etal-2025-toward https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.2/ 2025-12 13 24 TRepLiNa: Layer-wise CKA+REPINA Alignment Improves Low-Resource Machine Translation in Aya-23 8B Toshiki Nakai author Ravikiran Chikkala author Lena Oberkircher author Nicholas Jennings author Natalia Skachkova author Tatiana Anikina author Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 nakai-etal-2025-treplina https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.3/ 2025-12 25 34 MemeGuard: Transformer-Based Fusion for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Low-Resource Social Media Memes Md. Mohiuddin author Kawsar Ahmed author Shawly Ahsan author Mohammed Moshiul Hoque author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 mohiuddin-etal-2025-memeguard https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.4/ 2025-12 35 47 Language as a Label: Zero-Shot Multimodal Classification of Everyday Postures under Data Scarcity MingZe Tang author Jubal Chandy Jacob author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 tang-jacob-2025-language https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.5/ 2025-12 48 57 BengaliFig: A Low-Resource Challenge for Figurative and Culturally Grounded Reasoning in Bengali Abdullah Al Sefat author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 al-sefat-2025-bengalifig https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.6/ 2025-12 58 77 Domain-Specific Adaptation for ASR through Text-Only Fine-Tuning Betty Kurian author Abhinav Upadhyay author Abhijeet Sengupta author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 kurian-etal-2025-domain https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.7/ 2025-12 78 85 Towards Blind and Low-Vision Accessibility of Lightweight VLMs and Custom LLM-Evals Shruti Singh Baghel author Yash Pratap Singh Rathore author Anurag Pradhan author Sushovan Jena author Arnav Bhavsar author Amit Shukla author Pawan Goyal author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 baghel-etal-2025-towards https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.8/ 2025-12 86 94 Evaluating IndicTrans2 and ByT5 for English–Santali Machine Translation Using the Ol Chiki Script Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh author Asif Ekbal author Partha Pakray author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 singh-etal-2025-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.9/ 2025-12 95 100 Challenge Track: LoRAs in All Directions: Directional Adapters and Noisy-Channel Reranking for Indic MT Sajay Raj author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 raj-2025-challenge https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.10/ 2025-12 101 105 Challenge Track: Breaking Language Barriers: Adapting NLLB-200 and mBART for Bhilli, Gondi, Mundari, and Santali Without Source Language Proficiency Paul Kamau author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 kamau-2025-challenge https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.11/ 2025-12 106 108 Challenge Track: Divide and Translate: Parameter Isolation with Encoder Freezing for Low-Resource Indic NMT Vaibhav Kanojia author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 kanojia-2025-challenge https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.12/ 2025-12 109 113 Challenge Track: JHARNA-MT: A Copy-Augmented Hybrid of LoRA-Tuned NLLB and Lexical SMT with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Low-Resource Indic Languages Dao Sy Duy Minh author Trung Kiet Huynh author Tran Chi Nguyen author Phu Quy Nguyen Lam author Phu-Hoa Pham author Nguyễn Đình Hà Dương author Dien Dinh author Long HB Nguyen author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 minh-etal-2025-challenge https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.13/ 2025-12 114 120 Findings of the MMLoSo 2025 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Tribal Languages Pooja Singh author Sandeep Chatterjee author Gullal S Cheema author Amrit Singh Bedi author Tanmoy Chakraborty author Sandeep Kumar author Ankita Shukla author 2025-12 text Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal Models for Low-Resource Contexts and Social Impact (MMLoSo 2025) Ankita Shukla editor Sandeep Kumar editor Amrit Singh Bedi editor Tanmoy Chakraborty editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mumbai, India conference publication 979-8-89176-311-1 singh-etal-2025-findings-mmloso https://aclanthology.org/2025.mmloso-1.14/ 2025-12 121 129