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

January 2025

Domains

Low-Resource Languages Natural Language Processing

Authors

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.

Keywords

NLP AI Deep Learning

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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.

Biblography

@inproceedings{sarveswaran-etal-2025-brief,
    title = "A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing {S}outh {A}sian Languages ({CH}i{PSAL})",
    author = "Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer  and
      Thapa, Surendrabikram  and
      Shams, Sana  and
      Vaidya, Ashwini  and
      Bal, Bal Krishna",
    editor = "Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer  and
      Vaidya, Ashwini  and
      Krishna Bal, Bal  and
      Shams, Sana  and
      Thapa, Surendrabikram",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2025)",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.chipsal-1.1/",
    pages = "1--8",
    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."
}