PROGRAM
| 8.45–9.00 Opening Remark | |
| 9.00–10.00 Keynote Speech | |
| Theme: Language Processing and Evaluation | |
| 10.00–10.15 | Crossing Language Boundaries: Evaluation of Large Language Models on Urdu-English Question Answering Samreen kazi, Maria Rahim and Shakeel Ahmed Khoja |
| 10.15–10.30 | Hindi Reading Comprehension: Do Large Language Models Exhibit Semantic Understanding? Daisy Monika Lal, Paul Rayson and Mo El-Haj |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11.00–11.15 | Machine Translation and Transliteration for Indo-Aryan Languages: A Systematic Review Sandun Sameera Perera and Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka |
| 11.15–11.30 | Investigating the Effect of Backtranslation for Indic Languages Sudhansu Bala Das, Samujjal Choudhury, Dr Tapas Kumar Mishra and Dr Bidyut Kr Patra |
| 11.30–11.45 | BERTopic for Topic Modeling of Hindi Short Texts: A Comparative Study Atharva Mutsaddi, Anvi Jamkhande, Aryan Shirish Thakre and Yashodhara Haribhakta |
| 11.45–12.00 | Evaluating Structural and Linguistic Quality in Urdu DRS Parsing and Generation through Bidirectional Evaluation Muhammad Saad Amin, Luca Anselma and Alessandro Mazzei |
| 12.00–12.15 | Studying the Effect of Hindi Tokenizer Performance on Downstream Tasks Rashi Goel and Fatiha Sadat |
| 12.15–12.30 | Adapting Multilingual LLMs to Low-Resource Languages using Continued Pre-training and Synthetic Corpus: A Case Study for Hindi LLMs Raviraj Joshi, Kanishk Singla, Anusha Kamath, Raunak Kalani, Rakesh Paul, Utkarsh Vaidya, Sanjay Singh Chauhan, Niranjan Wartikar and Eileen Long |
| 12.30–12.45 | OVQA: A Dataset for Visual Question Answering and Multimodal Research in Odia Language Shantipriya Parida, Shashikanta Sahoo, Sambit Sekhar, Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Ketan Kotwal, Sonal Khosla, Satya Ranjan Dash, Aneesh Bose, Guneet Singh Kohli, Smruti Smita Lenka and Ondřej Bojar |
| 12.45–13.00 | Advancing Multilingual Speaker Identification and Verification for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages Braveenan Sritharan and Uthayasanker Thayasivam |
| 13.00–14.00 Lunch Break | |
| Theme: Applications and Societal Impact: Applying NLP to Real-World Problems and Societal Challenges | |
| 14.00–14.15 | Sentiment Analysis of Sinhala News Comments Using Transformers Isuru Bandaranayake and Hakim Usoof |
| 14.15–14.30 | ExMute: A Context-Enriched Multimodal Dataset for Hateful Memes Riddhiman Swanan Debnath, Nahian Beente Firuj, Abdul Wadud Shakib, Sadia Sultana and Md Saiful Islam |
| 14.30–14.45 | Studying the capabilities of Large Language Models in solving Combinatorics Problems posed in Hindi Yash Kumar and Subhajit Roy |
| 14.45–15.00 | From Scarcity to Capability: Empowering Fake News Detection in Low-Resource Languages with LLMs Hrithik Majumdar Shibu, Shrestha Datta, Md. Sumon Miah, Nasrullah Sami, Mahruba Sharmin Chowdhury and Md Saiful Islam |
| 15.00–15.15 | Enhancing Participatory Development Research in South Asia through LLM Agents System: An Empirically-Grounded Methodological Initiative from Field Evidence in Sri Lankan Xinjie Zhao, Hao Wang, Shyaman Maduranga Sriwarnasinghe, Jiacheng Tang, Shiyun Wang, Sayaka Sugiyama and So Morikawa |
| 15.15–15.30 | Identifying Aggression and Offensive Language in Code-Mixed Tweets: A Multi-Task Transfer Learning Approach Bharath Kancharla, Prabhjot Singh, Lohith Bhagavan Kancharla, Yashita Chama and Raksha Sharma |
| 15.30–16.00 Coffee Break | |
| Shared Task Discussion | |
| Team IndiDataMiner at IndoNLP 2025: Hindi Back Transliteration - Roman to Devanagari using LLaMa Saurabh Kumar, Dhruvkumar Babubhai Kakadiya and Sanasam Ranbir Singh | |
| IndoNLP 2025 Shared Task: Romanized Sinhala to Sinhala Reverse Transliteration Using BERT Sandun Sameera Perera, Lahiru Prabhath Jayakodi, Deshan Koshala Sumanathilaka and Isuri Anuradha | |
| Sinhala Transliteration: A Comparative Analysis Between Rule-based and Seq2Seq Approaches Widanalage Mario Yomal De Mel, Kasun Imesha Wickramasinghe, Nisansa de Silva and Surangika Dayani Ranathunga | |
| Romanized to Native Malayalam Script Transliteration Using an Encoder-Decoder Framework Bajiyo Baiju, Kavya Manohar, Leena G. Pillai and Elizabeth Sherly | |
| Final Remark |