Theme: NLP for East India, North East India and Southeast Asia – Bridging Borders, Building Resources

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(With provision of Travel and Accommodation Support for accepted Papers, including International Travel Grant)

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RegICON 2025 invites original research papers, tool demos, and applied NLP works focusing on computational linguistics and language technologies for the low-resource, linguistically diverse regions of East India, North East India and Southeast Asia. This cross-border regional conference—organized in-person at Gauhati University, Guwahati—aims to build shared linguistic resources, foster collaboration, and develop scalable solutions across underrepresented languages.

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to: (Submitted work must be on at least one native language of East India, North East India or South East Asia)

• NLP for low-resource and endangered languages of East India, North East India and Southeast Asia

• Multilingualism and code-switching in digital texts

• Morphologically rich language processing

• Speech technologies and ASR for tonal and agglutinative languages

• Lexicons, WordNets, and annotated corpora development

• Machine Translation (MT) and Cross-lingual NLP

• Named Entity Recognition, PoS/UPoS tagging, and parsing

• Orthography, transliteration, and multi-script handling

• Digital preservation of indigenous and tribal languages

• Language identification in multilingual and multiscript contexts

• Ethics, inclusion, and policy in regional NLP

• Any other topics relaveant to NLP of East Indian, North East Indian and South East Asian Languages

Important Dates 

• • Full Paper Submission Deadline: 20 October 2025  Extended Hard Deadline: 26 October 2025

  • Notification of Acceptance: From 25 October 2025 (Review will be done on receiving and rolling acceptance will be communicated at the earliest

  • Final Camera-Ready Submission: 10 November 2025

  • Registration: 25 October to 15 November, 2025 

Join us at RegICON 2025 as we explore how language technologies can empower regional identities and connect communities across borders. Let’s bridge the digital divide with inclusive, resource-rich, and culturally sensitive NLP innovations.

Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India