📰 workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages 2026 — accepted papers

workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages 2026 is the 2026 edition of the workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 2026 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 33 papers of it; our library holds 22 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Palma de Mallorca, Spain · 🗓 May 2026

All accepted papers (33)

The most cited first; 22 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Feature-Fusion Ensemble Approach for Tamil Hate Speech DetectionSathasivam Nerujan, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaranour summary
2. A Morphological Transducer for the Limbu LanguageAvyaya Singh, Jonathan N. Washingtonour summary
3. BNLI: A Linguistically-Refined Bengali Dataset for Natural Language Inference ↗Farah Binta Haque, Md Yasin, Shishir Saha et al.
4. Comparative Analysis of Tokenizers in Tamil Text Classification in Low Resource SettingsGokulan Sivakumaran, Randil Pushpananda, ERAD Bandaraour summary
5. Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Models for Punjabi Speech Emotion RecognitionFatima Tu Zahra, Kulsoom Asim, Sandesh Kumar et al.our summary
6. Cuet Yet Another Baseline@CHiPSAL LREC 2026: Shared Task on Multimodal Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes ↗Rotna Dipika Debnath, Shahrin Afroz Hoque Ruhi, Ayesha Labiba et al.
7. DR-RAG: Addressing Retrieval Misalignment in Low-Resource Urdu Question Answering ↗Saad Ahmad, Muhammad Hammad, Muhammad Zeeshan et al.
8. Development of Burushaski Speech - English Text Translation DatasetTauqeer Saleem, Abdul Samad, Azkaa Nasir et al.our summary
9. EthosAI@CHiPSAL2026: Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Memes Using a Multimodal Approach ↗Vinayak Bansal, Deepawali Sharma, Aakash Singh et al.
10. Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Named Entity Recognition in Urdu: A Benchmark StudyBushra Nasim, Kinza Latif, Muhammad Zohair et al.our summary
11. Evaluating Linguistic Knowledge of LLMs in Tamil: The ILAKKANAM BenchmarkJeyarajalingam Varsha, Menan Velayuthan, Sumirtha Karunakaran et al.our summary
12. Exploring Large Language Models for Multitask Learning in Bengali Text Classification ↗Md. Sajjad Hossain, Kawsar Ahmed, Suny Md Ashraf Khan et al.
13. Findings of the Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Surendrabikram Thapa, Ashwini Vaidya et al.our summary
14. From Romanized to Devanagari: Enhancing Nepali Sentiment Analysis with NepaliXlitSuraj Patel, Kashish Kumari Dhami, Norden Sherpa et al.our summary
15. HasNat@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Nepali Memes Using Aligned Vision–Language Models ↗Alvee Hasan Chowdhury, Md. Abul Hasnat, Adnan Faisal
16. Hi-SEMFLOW: Lie Algebra–Based Semantic Flow for Span-Level Informal Language Identification in HindiManikandan Ravikiran, Tanmay Tiwari, Vibhu Gupta et al.our summary
17. Improving Public Health Safety in Low-Resource Languages Using a Human-Verified Health Misinformation Corpus and Large Language ModelsSujal Maharjan, Astha Shrestha, Laxmi Thapa et al.our summary
18. Lost the Negation or Lost in Negation ↗Vennela Bairi, Parameswari Krishnamurthy
19. MEME-Fusion@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Ablation Study of Hate Detection and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali MemesSamir Wagle, Reewaj Khanal, Abiral Adhikariour summary
20. Multi-Modal-Minds@CHiPSAL 2026: A Comparative Study of Textual, Visual and Multimodal Architecture for Nepali Meme ModerationSandesh Shrestha, Bikram K.C., Akshyat Shah et al.our summary
21. Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Text-Embedded Images for Online Safety and Digital Well-beingSurendrabikram Thapa, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Siddhant Bikram Shah et al.our summary
22. NeCCo: Nepali Cultural Commonsense Benchmark for Large Language Model EvaluationSanket Shrestha, Raunak Regmi, Sadikshya Ghimire et al.our summary
23. NeuralNoodles@CHiPSAL 2026: Late-Fusion Multimodal Stacking for Nepali Meme Sentiment ClassificationSidratul Muntaha, Sabila Anzum, Arpita Mallik et al.our summary
24. Nwāchā Munā: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASRRishikesh Kumar Sharma, Safal Narshing Shrestha, Jenny Poudel et al.our summary
25. Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Low-Resource Nepali Speech RecognitionAadarsh Pandit, Yudhin Khanal, Ishan Pandey et al.our summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (22)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Findings of the Second Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL 2026)workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesKengatharaiyer Sarveswaran, Surendrabikram Thapa, Ashwini Vaidya, et al.2026 · 12 citations
2. Multimodal Hate and Sentiment Understanding in Low-Resource Text-Embedded Images for Online Safety and Digital Well-beingworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSurendrabikram Thapa, Shuvam Shiwakoti, Siddhant Bikram Shah, et al.2026 · 12 citations
3. NeuralNoodles@CHiPSAL 2026: Late-Fusion Multimodal Stacking for Nepali Meme Sentiment Classificationworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSidratul Muntaha, Sabila Anzum, Arpita Mallik, et al.2026 · 2 citations
4. Team Oryu@CHiPSAL 2026: Integrating Text and Vision Transformers for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection in Memesworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesNoore Tamanna Orny, Joyeta Barua Moni, Md. Abtahee Kabir, et al.2026 · 2 citations
5. linus@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Hate Speech and Sentiment Detection in Low-Resource Memes Using Late-Fusion Hybrid Architectureworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSunil Regmi, Bipesh Subedi, Saugat Singh, et al.2026 · 2 citations
6. MEME-Fusion@CHiPSAL 2026: Multimodal Ablation Study of Hate Detection and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali Memesworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSamir Wagle, Reewaj Khanal, Abiral Adhikari2026 · 2 citations
7. Improving Public Health Safety in Low-Resource Languages Using a Human-Verified Health Misinformation Corpus and Large Language Modelsworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSujal Maharjan, Astha Shrestha, Laxmi Thapa, et al.2026 · 1 citation
8. Evaluating Large Language Models for Medical Named Entity Recognition in Urdu: A Benchmark Studyworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesBushra Nasim, Kinza Latif, Muhammad Zohair, et al.2026 · 1 citation
9. A Feature-Fusion Ensemble Approach for Tamil Hate Speech Detectionworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSathasivam Nerujan, Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran2026 · 1 citation
10. Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Low-Resource Nepali Speech Recognitionworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesAadarsh Pandit, Yudhin Khanal, Ishan Pandey, et al.2026 · 1 citation
11. From Romanized to Devanagari: Enhancing Nepali Sentiment Analysis with NepaliXlitworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSuraj Patel, Kashish Kumari Dhami, Norden Sherpa, et al.2026 · 1 citation
12. Hi-SEMFLOW: Lie Algebra–Based Semantic Flow for Span-Level Informal Language Identification in Hindiworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesManikandan Ravikiran, Tanmay Tiwari, Vibhu Gupta, et al.2026 · 1 citation
13. Development of Burushaski Speech - English Text Translation Datasetworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesTauqeer Saleem, Abdul Samad, Azkaa Nasir, et al.2026 · 1 citation
14. Nwāchā Munā: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASRworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesRishikesh Kumar Sharma, Safal Narshing Shrestha, Jenny Poudel, et al.2026 · 1 citation
15. Multi-Modal-Minds@CHiPSAL 2026: A Comparative Study of Textual, Visual and Multimodal Architecture for Nepali Meme Moderationworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSandesh Shrestha, Bikram K.C., Akshyat Shah, et al.2026 · 1 citation
16. NeCCo: Nepali Cultural Commonsense Benchmark for Large Language Model Evaluationworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesSanket Shrestha, Raunak Regmi, Sadikshya Ghimire, et al.2026 · 1 citation
17. A Morphological Transducer for the Limbu Languageworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesAvyaya Singh, Jonathan N. Washington2026 · 1 citation
18. Comparative Analysis of Tokenizers in Tamil Text Classification in Low Resource Settingsworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesGokulan Sivakumaran, Randil Pushpananda, ERAD Bandara2026 · 1 citation
19. eGrantha.ai@CHiPSAL 2026: Stochastic Image Captioning for Robust Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Nepali Memesworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesAnish Thapaliya2026 · 1 citation
20. Evaluating Linguistic Knowledge of LLMs in Tamil: The ILAKKANAM Benchmarkworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesJeyarajalingam Varsha, Menan Velayuthan, Sumirtha Karunakaran, et al.2026 · 1 citation
21. Why Does Low-Rank Adaptation Work for Hindi-English Code-Mixing? A Geometric Analysisworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesShashank Vishwakarma, Rakesh Kumar2026 · 1 citation
22. Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Models for Punjabi Speech Emotion Recognitionworkshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian LanguagesFatima Tu Zahra, Kulsoom Asim, Sandesh Kumar, et al.2026 · 1 citation

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

😊Sentiment & emotion (9)🖼️Vision & language (7)🌱Low-resource languages (6)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (6)🛡️Bias, fairness & safety (6)🧠Language models & pretraining (3)🎙️Speech & spoken language (3)English (2)🏷️Named entity recognition (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)🧩Morphology (1)🧮Reasoning (1)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (1)🪶Efficient models & compression (1)🧷Idioms & multiword expressions (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (22)🎭Arts and Humanities (15)💭Psychology (2)🧬Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (1)🤝Social Sciences (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Kathmandu UniversityKathmandu · Nepal6 works here🎓University of JaffnaJaffna · Sri Lanka4 works here🎓Virginia TechBlacksburg · United States3 works here🎓Birmingham City UniversityBirmingham · United Kingdom2 works here🎓Tribhuvan UniversityKathmandu · Nepal2 works here🎓O. P. Jindal Global UniversitySonīpat · India2 works here🎓Habib UniversityKarachi · Pakistan2 works here🎓IIMS CollegeKathmandu · Nepal2 works here🎓Macquarie UniversitySydney · Australia2 works here🎓Chittagong University of Engineering & TechnologyChittagong · Bangladesh1 work here🎓Swarthmore CollegeSwarthmore · United States1 work here🎓Northeastern UniversityBoston · United States1 work here

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