Welcome to SPELLL 2025


FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES


December 18-20, 2025 - (Hybrid Mode)


Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Kottayam, INDIA



KEYNOTE TALKS 2025

Dr Ekaterina Vylomova

Ekaterina Vylomova

School of Computing and Information Systems,

The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

"The Left Hand of Translation: Machine Translation in Low-Resource Worlds"

Prof. Flammie Pirinen

Flammie Pirinen

Department of Language and Culture,

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Troms, Norway

"Experiences from building language technology infrastructures for Uralic and minority languages"

Jonathan Washington

Jonathan Washington

Department of Linguistics,

Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, United States.

"Developing language technology for minoritised languages"

Mr Kurt Micallef

Kurt Micallef

Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information & Communication Technology,

University of Malta, Msida

"Maltese Language Models for LowResource Maltese"

Prof. Ming Li

Ming Li

Electronical and Computer Engineering,

Digital Innovation Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, China

"Robust Target Speaker Speech Processing in Complex Scenarios"

Shuly Wintner

Shuly Wintner

Department of Computer Science,

University of Haifa, Isreal

"Code-switching: computational approaches"

Dr Simon Ostermann

Simon Ostermann

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),

Kaiserslautern, Germany

"Squeezing Low-Resource Languages out of LLMs"

Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty

Tanmoy Chakraborty

Department of Electrical Engineering (Computer Technology Group)

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India

"Enough of Scaling Laws! Let's focus on downscaling"

KEYNOTE TALKS 2024

Paolo Rosso

Paolo Rosso

Department of Computer Systems and Computation

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

"On the detection of fake news and conspiracy theories in social media"

Ilia Markov

Ilia Markov

Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab (CLTL)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

"Combating Multilingual Hate Speech Online: Challenges & Research Directions"

A Seza Doğruöz

A Seza Doğruöz

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Ghent University, Belgium

"Linguistic Diversity and Representativeness on AI: Challenges and the Need for Interdisciplinary Research"

Doris Dippold

Doris Dippold

School of Literature and Languages

University of Surrey, UK

"SPELL-ing it out: How a pragmatics-based approach can make explicit challenges for users of speech and language technologies from low-resource languages"

Sudip Kumar Naskar

Sudip Kumar Naskar

Computer Science & Engineering Department

Jadavpur University, India

"Knowledge Extraction from Text"

KEYNOTE TALKS 2023

Steffen Eger

Steffen Eger

Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG)

Bielefeld University, Germany

"Low-resource Text Generation and Evaluation"

Genta Indira Winata

Genta Indra Winata

Bloomberg LP

New York, United States

"Benchmarking Language Models on Underrepresented Languages"

Kaja Dobrovoljc

Kaja Dobrovoljc

Department of Translation Studies

Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia

"Advantages and challenges of cross-lingually harmonized spoken data annotation"

Endang Wahyu Pamungkas

Endang Wahyu Pamungkas

Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

Indonesia

"Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resourced Indonesian: Challenges and Opportunities"

Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta

Manex Aguirrezabal Zabaleta

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

"Computational models for poetry generation and automatic analysis"

Radhika Mamidi

Radhika Mamidi

International Institute of Information Technology

Hyderabad, India

"Dialog System"

Parameswari Krishnamurthy

Parameswari Krishnamurthy

International Institute of Information Technology

Hyderabad, India

"Domain Adaptation in building neural machine translation: A Linguistic Enquiry"

KEYNOTE TALKS 2022

Deepak Padmanabhan

Deepak Padmanabhan

Queens University-Belfast,

United Kingdom

"Fairness and Ethics in ML"

Dias P.G.V.

Dias P.G.V.

University of Moratuwa,

Sri Lanka

"Creation of Datasets for Training Language Models for Low-Resource Languages"

Kalika Bali

Kalika Bali

Principal Researcher,

Microsoft Research India

"Building Technology for Low Resource Languages : Lessons Learnt"

Kevin Patrick Scannell

Kevin Patrick Scannell

Saint Louis University,

United States of America

"20 Years a' Growing: The Past, Present, and Future of Irish NLP"

Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras

Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras

Universidad de Jaén,

Spain

"Corpus compilation for NLP shared tasks: the Spanish case"

Salud María Jiménez Zafra

Salud María Jiménez Zafra

Universidad de Jaén,

Spain

"Corpus compilation for NLP shared tasks: the Spanish case"