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Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages (DravidianLangTech-2025) at NAACL 2025

Call for Papers :

DravidianLangTech-2025 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field.

This comprehensive call for papers invites submissions on critical topics related to hate speech, offensive language, misinformation, and content safety in social media and online environments, especially as they pertain to Dravidian languages. Researchers are encouraged to explore innovative methods for detecting and mitigating various forms of harmful content, such as political hate speech, offensive language, and AI-generated misinformation, with a focus on cross-lingual and multimodal approaches that integrate text, images, and video.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Detection of Political Hate Speech in social media

· Multimodal Hate Speech Detection Across Text, Image, and Video Content

· AI-Generated Content Detection and Mitigation in Online Media

· Corpus Development for Hate Speech Detection in Multilingual Contexts

· Identifying Offensive Language in Political Discourse on Social Platforms

· Cross-Modal Techniques for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection

· Fake News and Rumor Detection in Dravidian Language Media

· Emotion Analysis and Sentiment Detection in Hate Speech

· Cyberbullying and Hostility Detection for Safer Online Environments

· Disinformation and Misinformation Detection in Political Speech

· Racial and Religious Abuse Detection Using Multimodal Approaches

· Automated Detection of AI-Generated Harmful Content

· Social Contagion of Hate Speech in Online Political Discussions

· Accent and Emotion Recognition in Dravidian Language Speech

· Social Bias Detection in AI-Generated Text

· Sexism and Misogynistic Attitudes in Multimodal Online Content

· Detection of Violent Incidents in social media Using Multimodal Data

· Phonology and Morphology in Dravidian Language Processing

· Document and Image Analysis for Hate Speech Detection in social media

Important dates

Workshop paper Submission deadline: January 30, 2025
Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: February 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025
Camera-ready paper due: March 10, 2025
Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): April 8, 2025
Workshop dates: May 3-4, 2025

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/DravidianLangTech

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2025/