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. 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025

Keynote talk: RL from world feedback. Shixiang Shane Gu explains why building AGI requires understanding and collaborating across global markets and talents.

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. 🌍🤖

✨ 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. 📚🌐 #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

🎤 Keynote talk by Monojit Choudhury on how conversational AI can move beyond static cultural sensitivity toward dynamic, culturally responsive systems. #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

Antoine Bosselut@abosselut.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Kicking off #MELT workshop at #COLM2025 with Monojit Choudhury talking about "Meta-Cultural Competence: What LLMs Should Know About Culture to Serve the Next Billion Users" !

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. 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

Come join us in 520D (all the way down the hall and around the corner) at #COLM2025 for the first workshop on multilingual and equitable language technologies!

Just 1 day to go! Join us tomorrow for the 1st Multilingual & Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @colmweb.org 2025. 📍 Room 520D 🕗 8:45am – 5:00pm Check the full schedule 👉 melt-workshop.github.io/schedule/ We can’t wait to welcome you! 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

⏰ Reminder: Conference Track Deadline is July 25! Have a paper accepted to @colmweb.org that aligns with linguistic & cultural inclusion in LLMs? Submit it to be featured at MELT 2025! 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=col... 📅 Deadline: July 25, 2025 #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨 The MELT Workshop Track submission deadline is now June 30, 2025 (AoE). We still welcome new & unpublished work: abstracts (≤2 p) | shorts (≤5 p) | longs (≤9 p) 📌 Non-archival 🔗 Submit here → openreview.net/group?id=col... #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team! 🔗 Fill out the interest form: forms.gle/MYcXED7RLJDS... #MELTWorkshop2025

🚨 Call for Submissions – MELT Workshop @colmweb.org 2025 🌍 We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies. 🛠️ Two tracks: — Workshop Track — Conference Track Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

🌍 ✨ Introducing MELT Workshop 2025: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Equitable Language Technologies A workshop on building inclusive, culturally-aware LLMs! 🧠 Bridging the language divide in AI 📅 October 10, 2025 Co-located with @colmweb.org 🔗 melt-workshop.github.io #MeltWorkshop2025