Keynote talk: RL from world feedback.
Shixiang Shane Gu explains why building AGI requires understanding and collaborating across global markets and talents.
📄 Paper: Why We Build Local Large Language Models: An Observational Analysis from 35 Japanese and Multilingual LLMs
by Koshiro Saito, Sakae Mizuki, Masanari Ohi, Taishi Nakamura, Taihei Shiotani, Koki Maeda, Youmi Ma et. al.
🎤 Keynote talk by Monojit Choudhury on how conversational AI can move beyond static cultural sensitivity toward dynamic, culturally responsive systems.
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📄 Paper: Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations Improve Multilingual Calibration
by Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić and Anna Korhonen
📄 Paper: The Case of Spanish as a Pluricentric Language: Challenging the Monolingual Bias in NLP to Improve Cultural Adequacy of LLMs
by María Grandury and Diana Galvan-Sosa
Keynote talk:
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments.
Imanol Schlag introduces Apertus, a fully open suite of LLMs with a focus on compliance, transparency, and multilingual representation training across 1000+ languages. 🌍🤖
Keynote talk: Optimizing Multilinguality Post Training.
Can multilingual ability be boosted at post training?
Julia Kreutzer from @cohereforai.bsky.social explores RL, test-time scaling & data distillation to improve open-ended tasks across languages. 🌍✨
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✨ Excited to kick off the Spotlight Paper Presentations at #MELTWorkshop2025!
These selected papers highlight cutting-edge research on multilingual and equitable language technologies. 🌍📑
Presenters: Koshiro Saito, @mariagrandury.bsky.social , and Ej Zhoo
Papers in the thread 👇
🎤 Keynote talk: Expanding the Language and Cultural Coverage of Common Crawl.
Pedro Ortiz Suarez highlights the efforts to improve language diversity & cultural representation in web archives, ensuring underserved languages & communities are better represented. 📚🌐
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MELT Workshop
Kicking off the 1st Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025 with opening remarks from @abosselut.bsky.social !
Excited to set the stage for a day full of discussions on multilingualism, equity, and the future of NLP. 🌍✨
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