If you are/were involved in #NLProc projects on low-resource languages (language variants and dialects included), we’d like to hear from you. It takes a few minutes to fill in this survey👇 forms.gle/B3yXApZwZLdvFD… RTs appreciated! 😊 1/

It's an honor to be part of this exciting project! Thanks @JunhoMyung00211 Na Yeon Lee Yi (Jodie) Zhou for leading this project 😊 BLEnD contains Q&A about everyday socio-cultural knowledge in 16 countries/regions and 13 languages, including Indonesian and Sundanese. 🇮🇩

We are hosting wonderful NLP colleagues at KAIST on their way to ACL Bangkok! 🤩 On-site registration is closed, but the talks will be broadcast on Zoom. Please join us! Date/Time: Aug 10, 2024, 10:05-12:30 KST (UCT+9) Parallel Session 1: Advanced Language Models and AI

Congratulations 🎉 @JunhoMyung00211 Jose Camacho Collados Hwaran Lee Na Yeon Lee Yi (Jodie) Zhou Nedjma Ousidhoum نجمة أوسيدهم @ACL2025 Eunsu Kim @ACL2025 Rifki Afina Putri and all other authors! Thank you C3NLP organizers! #acl2024

Glad to be part of this wonderful team!! 🙌

Thrilled to share that our paper "Can LLM Generate Culturally Relevant Commonsense QA Data? Case Study in Indonesian and Sundanese" has been accepted to #EMNLP2024 Main! 🥳 A huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and advisor. Check out our paper for more details! 👇🏽

🌟Happy to share that our "𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐧𝐃: 𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬" paper has been accepted to #NeurIPS2024 D&B Track 🚀 Congrats to all the amazing co-authors 🥳

🤩Really excited that this work will be presented at #neurips2024 d&b track. The BLEnD dataset took serious collaboration of hard thinking and work, getting human annotations from 16 diverse regional cultures in 13 languages, putting together short-answer and multiple choice QA

Glad to collaborate on this exciting project! Check out our VQA dataset designed to test VLMs' cultural knowledge through world cuisines. 👇🏽

I won't be at NeurIPS, but if you are, check out the BLEnD dataset poster presentation by Junho! 🤩

Thread: We are excited to announce the Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC) workshop at #NAACL2025!

Some personal updates: I've completed my Ph.D. at KAIST and am back home in Indonesia to start a new position as a Lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada. Feeling grateful and honored! 😊✨

Kindly note our call for workshop proposals! Sowmya Vajjala and Lizhen Qu are the workshop co-chairs.

Glad and honored to be part of this collaboration! 🥳🥳

🌍 ✨ 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 Conference on Language Modeling 🔗 melt-workshop.github.io

🚨 Call for Submissions – Melt Workshop Conference on Language Modeling 🌍 We invite papers on regionally grounded, culturally aware language technologies. 🛠️ Two tracks: — Workshop Track — Conference Track Details below ⬇️ #MeltWorkshop2025

🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop Conference on Language Modeling 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/MYcXED7RLJDSqi… #MeltWorkshop2025

If you work on multilingual or cultural AI, consider submitting your papers!