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

Paper which does not follow the Double-blind, Springer template, Page limit will be desk rejected right away
Accepted WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Fourth Workshop on Fake News Detection in Low-Resource Languages (Regional-FAKE 2025)
The rapid expansion of online social media in recent years has greatly enhanced communication among individuals. Users on these platforms can share information, interact, and stay updated on current events. However, a significant portion of recent information on social media is unreliable and, in some cases, deliberately misleading, commonly referred to as fake news. Efforts to detect or prevent fake news have primarily focused on high-resource languages such as Arabic, English, and other European languages. In contrast, low-resource languages like Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada have received little attention due to the absence of labeled fake news corpora, fact checking websites, and NLP tools. Despite the growing presence of multilingual content on the web, the classification of false news in low-resource languages remains challenging due to the lack of annotated corpora and necessary tools. This challenge persists even with the increase in multilingual web contents. We have conducted the Third Workshop on Regional Fake 2024 as a part of the SPELLL 2024 conference.
Regional-FAKE 2025 Website Page: https://spell-nine.vercel.app/
Regional-FAKE 2025 Workshop Paper Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SPELLL.org/2025/Workshop/Regional-FAKE#tab-recent-activity
Fourth Workshop on Low Resource Cross-Domain, Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Offensive Content Analysis (LC4 2025)
Theme: Agentic Applications
The goal of the Fourth workshop on Low Resource Cross-Domain, Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Content Analysis (LC4) is to advance research that develops, interrogates, and applies computational methods for detecting, classifying, and modeling all form of multimedia contents under Cross-Domain, Cross-Lingual and Cross-modal settings. The fourth iteration of LC4 workshop puts the emphasis more on understanding and studying how contents vary across different domains and genre, developing cross-lingual approaches to bridge gap between languages that have large corpora available and low resource languages and how different modality interaction could be used to better quantify contents and their end applications.
LC4 2025 Website Page: https://lc4workshop.github.io/
LC4 2025 Workshop Paper Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SPELLL.org/2025/Workshop/LC4
Fourth Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning in Low-Resource Languages (MMLow-2025)
We are excited to announce our next sequel in MMLOW, the Fourth Workshop on Multimodal Machine Learning in Low-Resource Languages (MMLow 2025) at IIIT Kottayam, Kerala. Building on the success of previous editions MMLow 2022 at ICON 2022 in IIIT Delhi, MMLow 2023 at Kongu Engineering College, Tamil Nadu in 2023 and MMLow 2024 at VIT-Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2024, this event continues our journey into the innovative realm of multimodal machine learning applied to underrepresented languages. By bringing together a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts, MMLow 2025 aims to extend the frontiers of AI and contribute significantly to the enhancement of linguistic diversity and understanding.
MMLow-2025 Website Page: https://sites.google.com/view/mmlow2025/home
MMLow-2025 Workshop Paper Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SPELLL.org/2025/Workshop/MMLow#tab-recent-activity
Paper Submission Guidelines
AI-ASSISTED RESEARCH DISCLOSURE GUIDELINES
The SPELLL 2025 conference has embraced the Springer Nature Policy regarding AI writing tools, which mandates authors to disclose AI assistance in their research. Springer Nature is monitoring ongoing developments in this area closely and will review (and update) these policies as appropriate.
- AI authorship.
- Generative AI images.
- AI use by peer reviewers.
For more details please visit: https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies/artificial-intelligence--ai-/25428500?srsltid=AfmBOoreWb8ZbuJy6R4k3sh4EFD5mXZ1-g5W7mJn3Siq_4qVKxBC-bZH
In all cases, authors are responsible for the correctness of their methods, results, and writing. Authors should check for potential plagiarism, both of text and code.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Regular Papers
Regular submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included.
Regular papers may consist of 12 - 16 pages of content including references.
Short Papers
SPELLL 2025 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are:
- A small, focused contribution
- Work in progress
- Experience notes
Short papers may consist of 6 - 8 pages including references. Short papers will be presented in one or more oral or poster sessions. While short papers will be distinguished from regular papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters.
Review Policy
For SPELLL 2025, the evaluation of submissions will employ a double-blind review process, ensuring impartiality and confidentiality in the assessment of papers. Under this system, the identities of both the reviewers and the authors are kept anonymous. This means that authors do not know who reviews their papers, and reviewers are unaware of the authors' identities. This approach is designed to minimize biases related to the authors' background, affiliation, or previous work, promoting an objective evaluation based on the submission's originality, relevance, importance, and clarity. Furthermore, authors are required to maintain anonymity in their citations as well. When referring to their previous work, authors should use the third person to avoid revealing their identity. For example, instead of saying "In our earlier work..." or "We previously showed that...", authors should frame these citations as if referencing another researcher's work, such as "Smith et al. (2020) demonstrated that...". This guideline helps preserve the integrity of the double-blind review process, ensuring that papers are evaluated solely on their merits.
Notice
- Paper which does not follow the Double-blind, Springer template, Page limit will be desk rejected right away
Author Guidelines
- When submitting a paper, authors must rigorously follow the double-blind policy guidelines. This includes omitting names and affiliations from the submission and ensuring adherence to the review policy guidelines to maintain anonymity.
- Authors must follow the Springer CCIS formatting instructions.
- For camera-ready papers use Latex or Word style provided on the authors' page for the preparation of papers.
- The LaTeX Proceedings Template for scientific authoring platform in Overleaf.
- Latex Template: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238648/data/v8 (Preferable)
(OR)
Word Template: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19238706/data/v5 - For Latex version – upload into Overleaf online latex editor or local Latex editors to prepare the paper.
Overleaf link: https://www.overleaf.com/
- Follow double-blind policy guidelines – It means, don’t add author’s name(s), affiliations, email id, etc. in the paper.
- Paper should follow the page limit constraints as mentioned above.
- Paper should contain only Title, Abstract, Keywords and Necessary Subsections in the above Springer CCIS format. This copy you have to upload in the following submission link in PDF format.
- Each paper will receive at least three reviews. At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the early registration date indicated on the conference website and present the paper.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be published in the Springer series: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS).
Volumes published will be indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

TIMELINES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
- Proposal Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025
- Notification of Acceptance: August 18, 2025
- Call for Workshop Papers: September 10, 2025
- Workshop Paper Due Date:
September 30, 2025October 10, 2025 - Notification of Acceptance:
October 20, 2025October 30, 2025 - Camera-ready papers due:
November 12, 2025November 20, 2025 - Workshop Dates: December 18-20, 2025
- Angel Deborah S - angeldeborahs@ssn.edu.in
- Anand Kumar M - m_anandkumar@nitk.edu.in
- Vengadeswaran - vengadesh@iiitkottayam.ac.in
- Deepak Jose - deepakjose@iiitkottayam.ac.in
- Abirami M - abirami@auist.net
- Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan - P.Kumaresan1@universityofgalway.ie