Institution Name: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam
Event Type: International Conference
Conference Name: 4th International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages(SPELLL-2025)
Conference Start Date: 18-12-2025
Conference End Date: 20-12-2025
Conference Mode: Hybrid Mode(both physical and on-line)
About Conference: The SPELLL-2025 conference, scheduled to take place at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Kottayam, Kerala, INDIA on December 18-20, 2025, is poised to be a pivotal event in the field of Speech and Language Technology, especially for low-resource languages. This Fourth edition of the International Conference on Speech & Language Technology for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL) is dedicated to the advancement and preservation of speech and language data technologies for less commonly used languages, focusing on their integration into the digital era and utilization in various industries, humanities, and social sciences.
In a world where internet usage is escalating and most global languages have transitioned smoothly into the digital age, the plight of approximately 10000+ languages, especially regional and low-resource ones, is often overlooked. These languages, lacking in technological development, face the imminent threat of extinction. SPELLL-2025 aims to counter this by congregating researchers worldwide who specialize in these low-resourced and minority languages. The goal is to foster the development of speech and language technologies to preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of these languages.
Call for papers:
This conference aims at bringing together researchers from across the world working on low-resourced and minority languages to create more speech and language technology for languages of the world.
We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Track-1: Language Resources (LRs)
- Lexicons and machine-readable dictionaries
- Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics
- Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation
- Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data
- Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
- Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archives
Track-2: Language Technologies (LT)
- Code-mixing
- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics
- Computer-assisted language learning (call)
- Covid-19 alert, NLP applications for emergency situations and crisis management
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion for language technology
- Fake news, spam, and rumour detection
- Hate speech detection and offensive language detection
- Machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization
- Text and data mining for social sciences and humanities research
- Text and data mining of (bio) medical literature, including pandemics
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis
- Applications for language, data and knowledge
- Question answering and semantic search
- Text analytics on big data
- Semantic content management
- Computer-aided language learning
- Natural language interfaces to big data
- Knowledge-based NLP
Track-3: Speech Technologies (ST)
- Speech technology and automatic speech recognition
- Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation
- Spoken language processing — translation, information retrieval, summarization resources and evaluation
- Speaker verification and identification
- Multimodal/multimedia speaker recognition and diarization
- Analysis of speech and audio signals
- Speech coding and enhancement
- Speech recognition – architecture, search, and linguistic components
- Speech, voice, and hearing disorders
- Speech synthesis and spoken language generation
- Cross-lingual and multilingual components for speech recognition / code switching
Track-4: Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Image Captioning
- Optical Character Recognition
- Handwritten Recognition
- Visual Question Answering
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Mobile multimodal systems
- Multimodal behaviour generation
- Multimodal datasets and validation
- Multimodal dialogue modeling
- Multimodal fusion and representation
- Multimodal interactive applications
- Novel multimodal datasets
Track-5: Applications of NLP
- NLP for Social media applications
- Federated Learning
- Disordered Speech with NLP
- Explainable models for speech and NLP technologies
- Quantum Computing with NLP
- Conversational agents using NLP and Speech technologies
- Cross cultural NLP
- NLP in Education
- Leveraging NLP and Speech technologies to promote heritage and culture
Track-6: Federated Learning & Ethical NLP
- Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Speech, Vision, and NLP
- Digital privacy and identity management in NLP and Speech Technologies
- Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools
- Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal model
- Bias in security related NLP and Speech datasets and annotations
Who can participate? Â Student/Research Scholar / Academicians/Industry Delegates
Registration Fee:
| Category | Indian Nationals(Rs) | Foreign Nationals(USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Research Scholars / Students | Rs.4500+18% GST(Rs.5310) | 70$+18% GST($83) |
| Academician | Rs.7000+18% GST(Rs.8260) | 150$+18% GST($177) |
| Industry Delegates | Rs.10000+18% GST(Rs.11800) | 200$+18% GST($236) |
Submission link: Click here
Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Deadline :Â August 20, 2025.
- Review Period :Â August 25 – September 18, 2025.
- Decision Period :Â September 22 – September 25, 2025.
- Acceptance notification :Â September 26, 2025.
- Camera Ready Submission :Â October 16, 2025.
- Conference Date :Â December 18 – 20, 2025.
Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth).
Institution Website: https://iiitkottayam.ac.in/
Venue:
Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam
Valavoor.P.O, Pala,
Kottayam – 686635,
Kerala, India
Conference Website: Click here
About Institution: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam (IIIT Kottayam) is an Institute of National Importance, established in 2015 by an act of the Parliament under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The institute offers a 4-year B.Tech and B.Tech (Hons.) program in frontier areas of ECE, CSE, Cybersecurity, AI, and Data Science. The Integrated M.Tech program (with BCA-MCA) in AI & Data Science at IIIT Kottayam is designed for students who have completed their higher secondary education in Science with Mathematics/Diploma or equivalent. M.Tech courses are organized exclusively for working professionals in Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Cyber Security, and CSE with specialization in Big Data & Machine Learning. The Institute awards the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) under ECE, Computational Mathematics, and CSE.
