Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) text conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 ltedi-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.0/ Behind the Laughter: Uncovering Gender Bias in Code-Mixed Bangla Memes Jannatul Ferdusi author Labanya Saha author Paria Chowdhury author Jawad Hossain author Noor Mairukh Khan Arnob author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 ferdusi-etal-2026-behind https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.1/ 2026-07 1 9 Bring Your Own Prompts: Use-Case-Specific Bias and Fairness Evaluation for LLMs Dylan Bouchard author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 bouchard-2026-bring https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.2/ 2026-07 10 26 Dual-Axis Compositional Contrastive Few-Shot Learning using Prototypes Across Linguistic and Semantic Dimensions for Indic Low-Resource Multilingual NLU Kathakali Mitra author Sakshi Singh author Sree Nithish Reddy Gunapati author Aruna Malapati author Mark G Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 mitra-etal-2026-dual https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.3/ 2026-07 27 36 Equilibrium Dynamics and Mitigation of Gender Bias in Synthetically Generated Data Ashish Kattamuri author Arpita Vats author Harshwardhan Fartale author Rahul Raja author Akshata Kishore Moharir author Ishita Prasad author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 kattamuri-etal-2026-equilibrium https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.4/ 2026-07 37 42 Evaluating Direct Preference Optimization for Personalizing German Automatic Text Simplifications for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Yingqiang Gao author Kaede Johnson author David Fröhlich author Luisa Carrer author Sarah Ebling author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 gao-etal-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.5/ 2026-07 43 62 From Form to Meaning: Interlingua Sense-Alignment of Offensive Language with LLMs Maria Alexandra Roussopoulou author Stella Markantonatou author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 roussopoulou-markantonatou-2026-form https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.6/ 2026-07 63 75 GYAAN-SAHIT: A Persona-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Caste-Based Hate Speech Detection Sakshi Gupta author Shunmuga Priya Muthusamy Chinnan author Saranya Rajiakodi author Ratnavel Rajalakshmi author Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 gupta-etal-2026-gyaan https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.7/ 2026-07 76 90 I’m Sorry, but I Can’t Help with Braille: Revealing Accessibility Failures in State-of-the-Art LLMs Abdullah author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 abdullah-2026-im https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.8/ 2026-07 91 98 Multimodal Transformer Framework for Multilingual Harmful Meme Classification Charmathi Rajkumar author Malliga Subramanian author Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 rajkumar-etal-2026-multimodal https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.9/ 2026-07 99 107 Translation-Augmented Multilingual Summarization for Low-Resource Languages Prasanth author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 prasanth-2026-translation https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.10/ 2026-07 108 117 Findings of Shared Task on Counter Narrative Generation on Homophobic and Transphobic Comments Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan author Praveen Prasannan author Tanay Singh author Ruba Priyadharshini author Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan author Saranya Rajiakodi author Paul Buitelaar author Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 kumaresan-etal-2026-findings https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.11/ 2026-07 118 127 Insights from Multilingual Gender Inclusive Language Generation Shared Task Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author Shunmuga Priya Muthusamy Chinnan author Paul Buitelaar author Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras author Salud María Jiménez-Zafra author Thomas Mandl author Sylvia Jaki author Rahul Ponnusamy author Anand Kumar Madasamy author Dhanalakshmi V author Bharathi B author Premjith B author Senthil Kumar B author Sathiyaraj Thangasamy author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 chakravarthi-etal-2026-insights https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.12/ 2026-07 128 140 Overview of the Multimodal Homophobia and Transphobia Meme Classification Shared Task Kishore Kumar Ponnusamy author Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi author Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan author Premjith B author Thenmozhi Durairaj author Ruba Priyadharshini author Subalalitha Chinnaudayar Navaneethakrishnan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 ponnusamy-etal-2026-overview https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.13/ 2026-07 141 149 CAI@LTEDI 2026: Multilingual Gender Inclusive Language Generation using Instruction-Guided mT5 Transformer Model Aiswariya p Nair author Sree S Bhagya author Chinnu Jacob author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 nair-etal-2026-cai https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.14/ 2026-07 150 154 CuriousVectors@LT-EDI 2026: Detection of Homophobic and Transphobic Memes on Social Media Using a Hybrid Multimodal Approach Saloni Kushwaha author Jishnu Bandyopadhyay author Deepawali Sharma author Aakash Singh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 kushwaha-etal-2026-curiousvectors https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.15/ 2026-07 155 160 DLRG@LT-EDI 2026: Automating Counter-Narratives for Homophobic and Transphobic Comments Ramesh Kannan R author Ratnavel Rajalakshmi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 r-rajalakshmi-2026-dlrg https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.16/ 2026-07 161 166 DuoNova@LTEDI 2026: Multilingual Span Detection and Counter-Narrative Generation on Homophobic and Transphobic Comments Manasa S author Arohi Rawat author Anbukkarasi Sampath author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 s-etal-2026-duonova https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.17/ 2026-07 167 171 Igniters@LTEDI 2026: Multilingual Gender-Inclusive Language Generation with mT5 and Counter-Narrative Generation Using Llama-3 Rajendran S author N.Ramkumar author Malarselvi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 s-etal-2026-igniters https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.18/ 2026-07 172 176 IHLC@LT-EDI 2026: Steering Toward Inclusivity - A Representation Engineering for Gender-Neutral Rewriting Akhil Rajeev P author Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 p-jagadeeshan-2026-ihlc https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.19/ 2026-07 177 181 IReL_IIT(BHU)@LTEDI 2026: Fine-Tuning Instruction-Tuned Transformers for Gender-Inclusive Rewriting and Counterfactual Bias Mitigation Anurag Balaji author Arjun Mukherjee author Krishna Tewari author Sukomal Pal author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 balaji-etal-2026-irel https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.20/ 2026-07 182 187 JusticeBots@LT-EDI 2026: Prompt-Based Counter-Narrative Generation for Homophobia and Transphobia Comments T T Pranesh author K.K.Thamizhmathi author S Vigneshwaran author Bharathi B author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 pranesh-etal-2026-justicebots https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.21/ 2026-07 188 192 JustGen@LT-EDI 2026: Controlled Gender Inclusive and Bias-Aware Language Generation using LLMs Nilendu Adhikary author Supriya Chanda author Sukomal Pal author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 adhikary-etal-2026-justgen https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.22/ 2026-07 193 197 MemeScouts@LT-EDI 2026: Asking the Right Questions - Prompted Weak Supervision for Meme Hate Speech Detection Ivo Bueno author Lea Hirlimann author Enkelejda Kasneci author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 bueno-etal-2026-memescouts https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.23/ 2026-07 198 205 NEUNI@LT-EDI 2026: Counter Narrative Generation on Homophobic and Transphobic Comments Preethi Gajawada author Bhanu Harsha Yanamadala author Akankshya Kar author Sahil Wadhwa author Divya Chaudhary author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 gajawada-etal-2026-neuni https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.24/ 2026-07 206 211 RspectNLP@LT-EDI 2026:Rubric-Driven Prompting for Safe Multilingual Counter Narrative Generation S.b.priya author Bharathi B author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 s-b-priya-b-2026-rspectnlp https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.25/ 2026-07 212 216 SAJI_English@LT-EDI 2026: Detection of Homophobia and Transphobia in Internet Memes Using Zero-Shot Learning Jishnu Bandyopadhyay author Saloni Kushwaha author Deepawali Sharma author Aakash Singh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 bandyopadhyay-etal-2026-saji https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.26/ 2026-07 217 221 Susmitha@LT-EDI 2026: Detecting LGBTQ+ Phobia in Multilingual Memes via Joint Representation Susmitha Jaishri author Kogilavani Shanmugavadivel author Malliga Subramanian author Mouleeshuwarapprabu R author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 jaishri-etal-2026-susmitha https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.27/ 2026-07 222 225 SigJBS@LT-EDI 2026: Multimodal Homophobia and Transphobia Meme Classification Gaurangi Sinha author Rajarajeswari Palacharla author Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 sinha-etal-2026-sigjbs https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.28/ 2026-07 226 233 SigJBS@LT-EDI 2026: QLoRA-Tuned Homophobic and Transphobic Counter Narrative Generation Gaurangi Sinha author Rajarajeswari Palacharla author Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 sinha-etal-2026-sigjbs-lt https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.29/ 2026-07 234 238 TeamV at LT-EDI 2026: Multilingual Hate Speech Span Detection and Counter-Narrative Generation via Few-Shot In-Context Learning Vinay Babu Ulli author Jyoti Kumari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi editor Bharathi B editor Paul Buitelaar editor Durairaj Thenmozhi editor Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras editor Salud María Jiménez Zafra editor Association for Computational Linguistics Virtual (Online) conference publication 979-8-89176-424-8 ulli-kumari-2026-teamv https://aclanthology.org/2026.ltedi-1.30/ 2026-07 239 243