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

I’m attending ACL 2025 2025 in Vienna🇦🇹 I'll be presenting some papers with my students/collaborators and attending workshops and BoFs. Feel free to catch up!

India is nowhere in the NLP map. 😢 We, cumulatively, need to push ourselves hard. ACL 2025 #nlproc

Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world, is truly an invisible country

BRIGHTER: multi-labeled datasets in 28 languages from 7 distinct families for emotion in #NLProc collected and annotated by native speakers to be presented today at #ACL2025 Session 9: IP-Orals – Resources and Evaluation 2 pm Hall B.

Presenting Data Laundering #ACL2025, by Jonibek Mansurov We show that knowledge distillation can unintentionally leak the performance of a cheated teacher (eg. if the teacher was trained on test data) 📍Resources and Evaluation 2, Hall B 14:00, 29th Jul 📜aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.…

So uh, I got my 4th *CL paper award on resource and evaluation😂 But this is mainly thanks to Nedjma Ousidhoum نجمة أوسيدهم and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD, they led this work amazingly

Attending #IOAI 2025 in Beijing

And that's a wrap! Congratulations to all the medalists! See the IOAI results here: ioai-official.org/china-2025/res… See you at IOAI 2026 in the UAE and IOAI 2027 in Singapore!

And congratulations to 🇮🇩Indonesia for winning 3 Silvers (Faiz, Matthew, Luvidi) and 1 Bronze (Jayden)! A strong debut for Indonesia’s first participation, hope to see even more in the future!

Multimodal LLMs lack cultural knowledge, especially for less well-represented cultures and languages. To fix this, we created 30M VQA pairs spanning 42 countries and 39 languages, leading to SOTA 7B performance on multimodal multilingual benchmarks.

Proud and excited to finally release FilBench, the first Open LLM Eval suite and leaderboard for Filipino! Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/filbench GitHub: github.com/filbench/filbe… Leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/UD-Fili… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.03523

Farid 'culture' Adilazuarda always delivers Congrats!

when your student shows you his multilingual experiment results and your brain just goes 'for real for real'

Our MBZUAI undergrad program might be new, but we’re so ready to make our mark in ICPC! Individual contests are done, teams are set. Next up is the internal contest to pick our top teams, then some training sessions Catch us at the World Finals 2026!

Thanks AK for sharing our work😀