🎉 That’s a wrap for the 1st Multilingual & Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop @COLM_conf! Congrats to all participants, speakers, and organizers who made this day a success. 🌍✨ See you next year at MELT2026! 👇 Want to help organize? Scan the QR code to sign up

and to the advisory board: @aliceoh, @ABosselut, @JungWooHa2, Hakim Hacid and @computermacgyve

Special thanks to the MELT 2025 Organizing Committee: @alhamfikri, @amir_nlp, @agromanou, @HaneulYoo13, @hwaran_lee, @mziizm, @nedjmaou, @negarforoutan, @rifkiaputri, @shocheen , @coallaoh #MELTWorkshop2025

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Keynote talk: Optimizing Multilinguality Post Training. Can multilingual ability be boosted at post training? Julia Kreutzer from @Cohere_Labs explores RL, test-time scaling & data distillation to improve open-ended tasks across languages. 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025

Keynote talk: RL from world feedback. @shaneguML from @GoogleDeepMind 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 @ImanolSchlag introduces Apertus, a fully open suite of LLMs with a focus on compliance, transparency, and multilingual representation training across 1000+ languages. 🌍🤖

📄Paper: Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations Improve Multilingual Calibration by Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić and Anna Korhonen

📄Paper: Why We Build Local Large Language Models: An Observational Analysis from 35 Japanese and Multilingual LLMs by Koshiro Saito, Sakae Mizuki, Masanari Ohi, Taishi Nakamura, Taihei Shiotani, Koki Maeda, Youmi Ma et. al.

📄Paper: The Case of Spanish as a Pluricentric Language: Challenging the Monolingual Bias in NLP to Improve Cultural Adequacy of LLMs by María Grandury and Diana Galvan-Sosa

✨ 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_sa110, @mariagrandury, and @EjZhou582 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. 📚🌐

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

Kicking off the 1st Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT) Workshop at @COLM_conf 2025 with opening remarks from @ABosselut ! Excited to set the stage for a day full of discussions on multilingualism, equity, and the future of NLP. 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025

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 @COLM_conf 2025. 📍 Room 520D 🕗 8:45am – 5:00pm Check the full schedule 👉 https://t.co/5YmZanmh6z We can’t wait to welcome you! 🌍✨ #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

⏰ Reminder: Conference Track Deadline is July 25! Have a paper accepted to @COLM_conf that aligns with linguistic & cultural inclusion in LLMs? Submit it to be featured at MELT 2025! 🔗 https://t.co/pdm1vW8QLs 📅 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 → https://t.co/pdm1vW8QLs #MELTWorkshop2025 #COLM2025

🧑‍💻 Call for Reviewers – Melt Workshop @COLM_conf 2025 🌍 We're looking for researchers passionate about multilingual, multicultural, and inclusive NLP to join our reviewer team! 🔗 Fill out the interest form: https://t.co/TcKIHc0YBa #MeltWorkshop2025

📚 Conference Track Already accepted to COLM 2025? If your paper aligns with MELT's themes of linguistic & cultural inclusion, we’d love to feature it! 📅 Deadline: July 14, 2025 We’re excited to see your work! 🌐✨