A Brief Overview of the First Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL)

AbstractIn this paper, we provide a brief summary of the inaugural workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) held as part of COLING 2025. The workshop included regular papers, invited keynotes, and shared task papers, fostering a collaborative platform for exploring challenges in processing South Asian languages. The shared task focused on Devanagari-script language understanding, encompassing subtasks on language identification, hate speech detection, and target classification. This workshop series aims to address linguistic and cultural nuances, resource constraints, and orthographic complexities in low-resource South Asian languages while advancing NLP research and promoting multilingual inclusivity.