We’re happy to share our latest work on SEA-VL Phase 2, continuing our effort to build language systems tailored for Southeast Asian languages and cultures.
★ SEA-adapted vision-language models (SEA-VLM) built on strong foundation models
★ Multilingual and culturally grounded instructiontuning data
From Tagalog to Filipino
If you’ve spent time with Filipinos, you’ve probably heard the words “Tagalog” and “Filipino” used interchangeably. For many, the difference feels minor, but behind those two labels is a long history shaped by migration, colonization, nationalism, and modern technology.
One last call for interested applicants! Applications for the SEACrowd Apprentice Program 2026 will end on December 17, 23:59 (UTC-12).
See the post below for more details. 👇
#nlp #nlproc #ai #ml #southeastasia #lowresource #languages
The SEACrowd Apprentice Program is 3–4 month guided research journey where you’ll collaborate with mentors, build multilingual AI tools.
Open to anyone with Southeast Asia affiliation or research focus—no strict age or credential limits. We’re looking for potential, motivation, and curiosity.
🌏 Applications are now open for the SEACrowd Apprentice Program 2026!
🗓️ Apply between Nov 17 – Dec 17, 2025 (UTC-12)
📅 Program runs Feb – Jun 2026
seacrowd.org/apprenticeship
★ Extensions to image generation and embedding models for SEA contexts
★ Evaluation across translated and region-specific multimodal benchmarks
This work is made possible by the amazing SEACrowd community, bringing together contributors across languages, cultures, and domains.
We’re thrilled that SEA-VL has been accepted to the ACL 2025 (Main)!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project 🥳
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.07920
Project: seacrowd.github.io/seavl-launch/
#ACL2025NLP #SEACrowd #ForSEABySEA
We’ve just shared a full retrospective of the first batch our Apprentice Program — from research wins to real lessons learned along the way. It’s inspiring to see how our SEA mentees transformed ideas into real papers and datasets through teamwork and mentorship.
seacrowd.org/posts/appren...
Reminder: Mentee registration is still OPEN for the second batch!
If you’ve been thinking about doing real AI/ML/NLP research with mentors — this is your sign to apply. (Deadline for application - Dec 17th)
Apply here: seacrowd.org/apprenticesh...
🚀 SEA-VL Phase 2 (Anthropogenic Regional Adaptation in Multimodal Vision-Language Model) is now available on arXiv!
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11490
🔗 Project page: seacrowd.org/projects/202...
