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

Prof. Flammie Pirinen

Flammie Pirinen

Department of Language and Culture,

UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Troms, Norway

Jonathan Washington

Jonathan Washington

Department of Linguistics,

Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mr Kurt Micallef

Kurt Micallef

Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information & Communication Technology,

University of Malta, Msida

Prof. Ming Li

Ming Li

Electronical and Computer Engineering,

Digital Innovation Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, China

Shuly Wintner

Shuly Wintner

Department of Computer Science,

University of Haifa, Isreal

Dr Simon Ostermann

Simon Ostermann

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),

Kaiserslautern, Germany

Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty

Tanmoy Chakraborty

Department of Electrical Engineering (Computer Technology Group)

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India

KEYNOTE TALKS 2024

Paolo Rosso

Paolo Rosso

Department of Computer Systems and Computation

Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Ilia Markov

Ilia Markov

Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab (CLTL)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

A Seza Doğruöz

A Seza Doğruöz

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Ghent University, Belgium

Doris Dippold

Doris Dippold

School of Literature and Languages

University of Surrey, UK

Sudip Kumar Naskar

Sudip Kumar Naskar

Computer Science & Engineering Department

Jadavpur University, India

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