Call for Participation: MELT (Multilingual and Equitable, Language Technologies) Workshop @ COLM2025

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
MELT Workshop @ COLM2025
Location: 
Palais des Congrès
Friday, 10 October 2025
Country: 
Canada
City: 
Montreal
Contact: 
MELT 2025 Organisers
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 23 June 2025

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the MELT Workshop (Multilingual and Equitable, Language Technologies), which will be co-located with COLM 2025 on October 10th, 2025 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada.

The workshop invites submissions focused on building regionally grounded and culturally aware language technologies. You can learn more on our website: https://melt-workshop.github.io

We are accepting submissions under two tracks:

1) Workshop Track Submit here: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2025/Workshop/MELT
We welcome novel, unpublished work, including:

- Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages)
- Short papers (up to 4 pages)
- Long papers (up to 8 pages)

All submissions will be non-archival. Deadline: June 23rd, 2025

2) Conference Track
We also welcome papers accepted to COLM 2025 that align with the workshop's themes. Deadline: July 14th, 2025

Contact:
- X (formerly Twitter): @MeltWorkshop
- BlueSky: @meltworkshop.bsky.social
- Email: melt-workshop@googlegroups.com

Thank you, and we look forward to your submissions!

Kind regards,
The MELT 2025 Organisers.