CLRLC-LLMs Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025

Overview

The Centering Low-Resource Languages and Cultures in the Age of Large Language Models (CLRLC-LLMs) Workshop explores the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in shaping the future of multilingual and culturally inclusive artificial intelligence. While LLMs have transformed natural language processing, they are still largely optimized for high-resource and globally dominant languages. Low-resource languages and cultures remain significantly underrepresented in current AI research and development.

This workshop aims to reframe conversations in language technology by placing low-resource languages and cultures at the center of AI innovation. It seeks to bring together researchers, linguists, developers, and technologists to share their insights, challenges, and strategies for developing, evaluating, and deploying LLMs that uphold linguistic diversity and cultural identity across Africa and parts of the Asian region.

Through talks, paper presentations, and collaborative discussions, the workshop promotes global collaboration, scalable approaches for data creation and model alignment, and ethical, culturally aware evaluation of LLMs. Ultimately, it aims to inspire interdisciplinary research that bridges linguistics, computer science, and engineering toward a more inclusive and representative AI landscape.

Through invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions, participants will examine the intersections of AI, linguistics, and cultural diversity promoting innovations that empower underrepresented language communities globally.

Agenda

Monday, 1 December 2025

Time	Session	Details
09:00–09:30	Workshop Opening & Registration	Don Alberto 1
09:30–09:45	Welcome & Opening Remarks	Workshop Organizer — Oluchi Audu and Flora Oladipupo
09:45–10:30	Keynote Speaker	Towards Representative, Trustworthy and Scalable Multilingual, Multi-cultural Evaluation Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft India)
10:30–10:45	Coffee Break
10:45–11:00	Networking Session	Networking Session
11:00–11:15	Spotlight Presentation	Culturally aware instruction and alignment methods for low-resource Indian-language LLMs Praveen Tangarajan & Madhvi Sharma
11:15–11:30	Spotlight Presentation	ENLIVEN-1000: A Comprehensive Revitalization Framework for 1000+Endangered Languages via Broad-Coverage LID and LLM-Augmented MT Philip Meng
11:30–11:45	Spotlight Presentation	AfriStereo: A Culturally Grounded Dataset for Evaluating Stereotypical Bias in Large Language Models Oche David
11:45–12:00	Spotlight Presentation	Developing a Non-Western Culture Aware RAG Application Ariana Mondiri
12:00–13:00	Lunch Break
13:00–13:45	Keynote Speaker	Endangered Languages in the Age of LLM Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College)
13:45–14:00	Spotlight Presentation	CL-PDE: A Heterogeneous Graph Framework for Cross-Lingual Mental Health Ontologies Isabel Michelle
14:00–14:45	Keynote Speaker	Active Learning for Low-resource Efficient NLP Bonaventure F. P. Dossou (McGill University \| Mila Québec)
14:45–15:00	Spotlight Presentation	Beyond Surface Text: Revealing Distinctive Personas in LLMs using Cognitive Bridging Jongwon Ryu
15:00–15:15	Afternoon Break
15:15–15:30	Spotlight Presentation	HealthAlign-Agents: Self-Play Reflective Prompting for Culturally Aligned Health Communication in Low-Resource Languages Aura Arefeh Yavary
15:30–16:30	Special Session	Ethical Dataset Collection and Representation in Low-Resource Language Contexts Round Tables
16:30–17:00	Closing Remarks	Workshop Chair — Joy Olusanya

Call for Lightning Talks

We invite researchers, practitioners, linguists, and students working on low-resource languages, culturally aware AI, and inclusive language technologies to submit Lightning Talk abstracts to the Centering Low-Resource Languages and Cultures in the Age of Large Language Models (CLRLC-LLMs) Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025, taking place in Mexico City on December 1, 2025.

Lightning Talks are short, focused presentations (5–7 minutes) that showcase ongoing research, new ideas, or visionary directions relevant to the workshop’s theme. The session aims to spark interdisciplinary exchange and highlight work advancing culturally grounded AI.

Scope and Topics of Interest

We welcome contributions from NLP, linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, and social science communities, as well as from practitioners and technologists working at the intersection of language, culture, and artificial intelligence. Submissions may include technical or interdisciplinary work in areas such as:

LLMs for low-resource languages
Culturally grounded NLP and multilingual evaluation
Dataset creation, curation, and benchmarks for African, Indigenous, and marginalized languages
Cross-linguistic transfer and model adaptation
Ethical, social, and policy dimensions of language technologies
Community-based and participatory AI approaches
Speech, ASR, and translation in low-resource settings
Human–AI interaction for linguistic and cultural inclusivity
Cognitive or sociolinguistic perspectives on AI and language
Healthcare and biomedical machine translation for low-resource languages

Submission Instructions

Submission Platform: OpenReview – NeurIPS 2025 Workshops (CANCELLED – due to technical issues)
New Submission Platform: Google Form
Submission Type: Abstract (PDF format)
Length: Up to 1 page (excluding references)
Title of the Lightning Talk
Format: Must follow the official NeurIPS 2025 style template
Anonymity: Submissions must be fully anonymous
Presentation Duration: 5–7 minutes + Q&A
Presentation Mode: In-person (Mexico City)
Deadline: November 19, 2025

Important: OpenReview submissions are no longer accepted. Please use the Google Form above.

Eligibility

The Call for Lightning Talks is open only to participants registered for NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City. Funding is not available for Lightning Talk presenters.