Call for Papers

We welcome papers on the following topics, including but not limited to:

  • Theoretical and methodological innovations in diverse and inclusive language modeling
  • Probing, interpreting, and analyzing LLMs across regions, cultures, and languages
  • Datasets, benchmarks, and metrics for diversity and inclusivity in LLMs
  • Focused studies on regional, low-resourced, underrepresented languages and cultures
  • Cultural considerations and value pluralism in language models
  • Multimodal extensions for multilingual, multicultural LLMs
  • Fairness, bias, safety, and ethical considerations in multilingual, multicultural LLMs
  • Practical, political, and philosophical discussions on regional LLMs

We accept submissions under two tracks: Workshop Track and Conference Track.

Submission links: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2025/Workshop/MELT

Workshop Track

We welcome submissions of novel, unpublished work. We solicit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages), short papers (up to 5 pages), and long papers (up to 9 pages); all are non-archival, with unlimited space for references and appendices. Submissions must include a statement addressing broader impacts and ethical considerations of their work, in line with COLM Code of Ethics, outside the page limit. All submissions should use the official COLM LaTeX style template and follow the COLM submission guidelines.

We will manage submissions through OpenReview. All papers will undergo a double-blind review process, and the final acceptance decisions will be made by the workshop organizers. The important dates are as follows:

  • Paper submission deadline: June 23, 2025 AoE
  • Notification of acceptance: July 21, 2025 AoE

Conference Track

We also welcome submissions that have been accepted to other journals/conferences within a year (e.g., accepted to COLM 2025) and are aligned with the themes of this workshop. These submissions will not be subject to a review process in this workshop. Instead, they will undergo a light-touch screening to ensure thematic relevance. Authors may submit the camera-ready version of their accepted paper (up to 9 pages, no anonymization required). The important dates are as follows:

  • Paper submission deadline: July 14, 2025 AoE
  • Notification of acceptance: July 21, 2025 AoE