Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026)

Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain text conference publication chipsal-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.0/ Findings of the Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran author Surendrabikram Thapa author Ashwini Vaidya author Tafseer Ahmed author Bal Krishna Bal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication sarveswaran-etal-2026-findings 10.63317/4c7g3mdcb3jv https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.1/ 2026-05 1 8 Development of Burushaski Speech - English Text Translation Dataset Tauqeer Saleem author Abdul Samad author Azkaa Nasir author Adina Adnan Mansoor author Fatima Faisal author Mahrukh Yousuf author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication saleem-etal-2026-development 10.63317/3ujn9xefj6ca https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.2/ 2026-05 9 17 Lost the Negation or Lost in Negation Vennela Bairi author Parameswari Krishnamurthy author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication bairi-krishnamurthy-2026-lost 10.63317/2erp7saprer9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.3/ 2026-05 18 31 A Morphological Transducer for the Limbu Language Avyaya Singh author Jonathan N Washington author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication singh-washington-2026-morphological 10.63317/32q7did7b56q https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.4/ 2026-05 32 39 Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Named Entity Recognition in Urdu: A Benchmark Study Bushra Nasim author Kinza Latif author Muhammad Zohair author Muhammad Hassan Asif author Zarmeen Nasim author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication nasim-etal-2026-evaluating 10.63317/5iobohdgnfh4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.5/ 2026-05 40 48 DR-RAG: Addressing Retrieval Misalignment in Low-Resource Urdu Question Answering Saad Ahmad author Muhammad Hammad author Muhammad Zeeshan author Faizad Ullah author Asim Karim author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication ahmad-etal-2026-dr 10.63317/4wwyss5zkwxs https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.6/ 2026-05 49 58 Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Models for Punjabi Speech Emotion Recognition Fatima Tu Zahra author Kulsoom Asim author Sandesh Kumar author Abdul Samad author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication tu-zahra-etal-2026-cross 10.63317/3ao5m9p6ni9x https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.7/ 2026-05 59 67 SiPaKosa: A Comprehensive Corpus of Canonical and Classical Buddhist Texts in Sinhala and Pali Ranidu Hansaka Gurusinghe author Nevidu Jayatilleke author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication gurusinghe-jayatilleke-2026-sipakosa 10.63317/4tbdbjqmtfj6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.8/ 2026-05 68 84 BNLI: A Linguistically-Refined Bengali Dataset for Natural Language Inference Farah Binta Haque author Md Yasin author Shishir Saha author Md Shoaib Akhter Rafi author Farig Sadeque author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication haque-etal-2026-bnli 10.63317/2cwaxs8a7csg https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.9/ 2026-05 85 91 Exploring Large Language Models for Multitask Learning in Bengali Text Classification Md. Sajjad Hossain author Kawsar Ahmed author Suny Md Ashraf Khan author Mohammed Moshiul Hoque author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication hossain-etal-2026-exploring 10.63317/54y27enmr5e9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.10/ 2026-05 92 104 Nwāchā Munā: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR Rishikesh Kumar Sharma author Safal Narshing Shrestha author Jenny Poudel author Rupak Tiwari author Arju Shrestha author Rupak Raj Ghimire author Bal Krishna Bal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication sharma-etal-2026-nwacha 10.63317/3njkgpwzsn7k https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.11/ 2026-05 105 114 From Romanized to Devanagari: Enhancing Nepali Sentiment Analysis with NepaliXlit Suraj Patel author Kashish Kumari Dhami author Norden Sherpa author Supriya Khadka author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication patel-etal-2026-romanized 10.63317/5j8kkeb2myf6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.12/ 2026-05 115 126 Why Does Low-Rank Adaptation Work for Hindi-English Code-Mixing? A Geometric Analysis Shashank Vishwakarma author Rakesh Kumar author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication vishwakarma-kumar-2026-low 10.63317/55yuuwkijgj9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.13/ 2026-05 127 136 Hi-SEMFLOW: Lie Algebra–Based Semantic Flow for Span-Level Informal Language Identification in Hindi Manikandan Ravikiran author Tanmay Tiwari author Vibhu Gupta author Rohit Saluja author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication ravikiran-etal-2026-hi 10.63317/2duxp4m72ddj https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.14/ 2026-05 137 153 NeCCo: Nepali Cultural Commonsense Benchmark for Large Language Model Evaluation Sanket Shrestha author Raunak Regmi author Sadikshya Ghimire author Satyam Rana author Supriya Khadka author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication shrestha-etal-2026-necco 10.63317/3zsmcs7pxtgi https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.15/ 2026-05 154 168 Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Low-Resource Nepali Speech Recognition Aadarsh Pandit author Yudhin Khanal author Ishan Pandey author Kushal Kunwar author Sunil Regmi author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication pandit-etal-2026-reward 10.63317/45u9hjmchyhh https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.16/ 2026-05 169 175 Evaluating Linguistic Knowledge of LLMs in Tamil: The ILAKKANAM Benchmark Jeyarajalingam Varsha author Menan Velayuthan author Sumirtha Karunakaran author Rasan Nivethiga author Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication varsha-etal-2026-evaluating 10.63317/23ob532xgibu https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.17/ 2026-05 176 189 A Feature-Fusion Ensemble Approach for Tamil Hate Speech Detection Sathasivam Nerujan author Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication nerujan-sarveswaran-2026-feature 10.63317/2us8ubrf4jvi https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.18/ 2026-05 190 197 Comparative Analysis of Tokenizers in Tamil Text Classification in Low Resource Settings Gokulan Sivakumaran author Randil Pushpananda author E R A D Bandara author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication sivakumaran-etal-2026-comparative 10.63317/5p78kf96x2jw https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.19/ 2026-05 198 208 Improving Public Health Safety in Low-Resource Languages Using a Human-Verified Health Misinformation Corpus and Large Language Models Sujal Maharjan author Astha Shrestha author Laxmi Thapa author Sweta Poudel author Shuvam Shiwakoti author Rabin Thapa author Kritesh Rauniyar author Surendrabikram Thapa author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication maharjan-etal-2026-improving 10.63317/5obqozzwbr2d https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.20/ 2026-05 209 218 Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Text-Embedded Images for Online Safety and Digital Well-being Surendrabikram Thapa author Shuvam Shiwakoti author Siddhant Bikram Shah author Kritesh Rauniyar author Laxmi Thapa author Surabhi Adhikari author Kristina T Johnson author Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran author Bal Krishna Bal author Usman Naseem author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication thapa-etal-2026-multimodal-hate 10.63317/3rhxrpvoi74j https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.21/ 2026-05 219 228 Unigoa@CHiPSAL 2026: Early vs Late Fusion for Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Detection in Nepali Memes Ashweta Fondekar author Milind Shivolkar author Jyoti Pawar author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication fondekar-etal-2026-unigoa 10.63317/37ooapnyzhbx https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.22/ 2026-05 229 236 HasNat@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Nepali Memes Using Aligned Vision–Language Models Alvee Hasan Chowdhury author Md. Abul Hasnat author Adnan Faisal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication chowdhury-etal-2026-hasnat 10.63317/54xeeoceu6qz https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.23/ 2026-05 237 243 TeamHerald@CHIPSAL 2026: Hate Speech Detection and Sentiment Analysis of Nepali Memes Using Transformer-based Architectures and Ensemble Learning Ashish Acharya author Anish Khatiwada author Rohit Khadka author Pragya Aryal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication acharya-etal-2026-teamherald 10.63317/328gg52ap2qp https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.24/ 2026-05 244 249 NeuralNoodles@CHiPSAL 2026: Late-Fusion Multimodal Stacking for Nepali Meme Sentiment Classification Sidratul Muntaha author Sabila Anzum author Arpita Mallik author Hasan Murad author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication muntaha-etal-2026-neuralnoodles 10.63317/5om43abhz5vy https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.25/ 2026-05 250 257 Multi-Modal-Minds@CHiPSAL 2026: A Comparative Study of Textual, Visual and Multimodal Architecture for Nepali Meme Moderation Sandesh Shrestha author Bikram K.C. author Akshyat Shah author Ashish Acharya author Rabin Thapa author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication shrestha-etal-2026-multi 10.63317/4ajzb6i9sfbx https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.26/ 2026-05 258 266 linus@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Hate Speech and Sentiment Detection in Low-Resource Memes Using Late-Fusion Hybrid Architecture Sunil Regmi author Bipesh Subedi author Saugat Singh author Suman Shrestha author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication regmi-etal-2026-linus 10.63317/3t7nocwwhq8r https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.27/ 2026-05 267 274 ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification Nitiz Khanal author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication khanal-2026-zeror 10.63317/5nypaugdk6kz https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.28/ 2026-05 275 283 Team Oryu@CHiPSAL 2026: Integrating Text and Vision Transformers for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Memes Noore Tamanna Orny author Joyeta Barua Moni author Md. Abtahee Kabir author Hasan Murad author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication orny-etal-2026-team 10.63317/2fb8jq6jj36y https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.29/ 2026-05 284 291 Cuet Yet Another Baseline@CHiPSAL LREC 2026: Shared Task on Multimodal Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes Rotna Dipika Debnath author Shahrin Afroz Hoque Ruhi author Ayesha Labiba author Arpita Mallik author Hasan Murad author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication debnath-etal-2026-cuet-yet 10.63317/4kg38ys6pxa5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.30/ 2026-05 292 299 MEME-Fusion@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Ablation Study of Hate Detection and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali Memes Samir Wagle author Reewaj Khanal author Abiral Adhikari author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication wagle-etal-2026-meme 10.63317/2womrc9pc2b7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.31/ 2026-05 300 307 eGrantha.ai@CHiPSAL 2026: Stochastic Image Captioning for Robust Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Nepali Memes Anish Thapaliya author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication thapaliya-2026-egrantha 10.63317/5d8j4bfmcvry https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.32/ 2026-05 308 315 EthosAI@CHiPSAL2026: Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes Using a Multimodal Approach Vinayak Bansal author Deepawali Sharma author Aakash Singh author Vivek Kumar Singh author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Second workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL2026) Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran editor Ashwini Vaidya editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma de Mallorca, Spain conference publication bansal-etal-2026-ethosai 10.63317/576er6z44zrx https://aclanthology.org/2026.chipsal-1.33/ 2026-05 316 323