1st Workshop on BHASHA: Benchmarks, Harmonization, Annotation, and Standardization for Human-Centric AI in Indian Languages
December 23, 2025

IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
India

Accepted Research Papers, Shared Task Papers, Demonstrations
Research Track
Indian Grammatical Tradition-Inspired Universal Semantic Representation Bank (USR Bank 1.0) pdf poster
  • Soma Paul (soma at iiit dot ac dot in)
  • Sukhada Sukhada (sukhada dot hss at iitbhu dot ac dot in)
  • Bidisha Bhattacharjee (bidisha dot bhattacharje at research dot iiit dot ac dot in)
  • Kumari Riya (kumaririya dot jra dot hss24 at iitbhu dot ac dot in)
  • Sashank Tatavolu (sashank dot tatavolu at research dot iiit dot ac dot in)
  • Kamesh R ()
  • Isma Anwar (isma dot anwar at research dot iiit dot ac dot in)
  • Pratibha Rani ()
Auditing Political Bias in Text Generation by GPT-4 using Sociocultural and Demographic Personas: Case of Bengali Ethnolinguistic Communities pdf
  • Dipto Das (dipto dot das at utoronto dot ca)
  • Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed (ishtiaque at cs dot toronto dot edu)
  • Shion Guha (shion dot guha at utoronto dot ca)
INDRA: Iterative Difficulty Refinement Attention for MCQ Difficulty Estimation for Indic Languages pdf
  • Manikandan Ravikiran (erpd2301 at students dot iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Rohit Saluja (rohit at iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Arnav Bhavsar (arnav at iitmandi dot ac dot in)
Mātṛkā: Multilingual Jailbreak Evaluation of Open-Source Large Language Models pdf
  • Murali Emani (memani at anl dot gov)
  • Kashyap Manjusha R (kr58 at illinois dot edu)
Accent Placement Models for Rigvedic Sanskrit Text pdf poster
  • Akhil Rajeev P (akhilrajeev at cdac dot in)
  • Annarao Kulkarni (kulkarni at cdac dot in)
Benchmarking Hindi LLMs: A New Suite of Datasets and a Comparative Analysis pdf poster slides
  • Anusha Kamath (anushak at nvidia dot com)
  • Kanishk Singla (kanishks at nvidia dot com)
  • Rakesh Paul (rapaul at nvidia dot com)
  • Raviraj Bhuminand Joshi (ravirajj at nvidia dot com)
  • Utkarsh Vaidya (uvaidya at nvidia dot com)
  • Sanjay Singh Chauhan (schauhan at nvidia dot com)
  • Niranjan Wartikar (nwartikar at nvidia dot com)
Aligning Large Language Models to Low-Resource Languages through LLM-Based Selective Translation: A Systematic Study pdf poster slides
  • Rakesh Paul (rapaul at nvidia dot com)
  • Anusha Kamath (anushak at nvidia dot com)
  • Kanishk Singla (kanishks at nvidia dot com)
  • Raviraj Joshi (ravirajj at nvidia dot com)
  • Utkarsh Vaidya (uvaidya at nvidia dot com)
  • Sanjay Singh Chauhan (schauhan at nvidia dot com)
  • Niranjan Wartikar (nwartikar at nvidia dot com)
Automatic Accent Restoration in Vedic Sanskrit with Neural Language Models pdf slides
  • Yuzuki Tsukagoshi (yuzuki at l dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp)
  • Ikki Ohmukai ()
Multi-Feature Graph Convolution Network for Hindi OCR Verification pdf poster slides
  • Shikhar Dubey (s24130 at students dot iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Krish Mittal (s24131 at students dot iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Sourava Kumar Behera (b22214 at students dot iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Manikandan Ravikiran (manikandan dot r at thoughtworks dot com)
  • Nitin Kumar (nitin dot kumar at snu dot edu dot in)
  • Saurabh Shigwan (saurabh dot shigwan at snu dot edu dot in)
  • Rohit Saluja (rohit at iitmandi dot ac dot in)
AnciDev: A Dataset for High-Accuracy Handwritten Text Recognition of Ancient Devanagari Manuscripts pdf slides
  • Vriti Sharma (t24156 at students dot iitmandi dot ac dot in)
  • Rajat Verma ()
  • Rohit Saluja (rohit at iitmandi dot ac dot in)
BHRAM-IL: A Benchmark for Hallucination Recognition and Assessment in Multiple Indian Languages pdf poster
  • Hrishikesh Terdalkar (hrishikesh dot rt at hyderabad dot bits-pilani dot ac dot in)
  • Kirtan Bhojani (f20230366 at hyderabad dot bits-pilani dot ac dot in)
  • Aryan Dongare (f20230194 at hyderabad dot bits-pilani dot ac dot in)
  • Omm Aditya Behera (f20230434 at hyderabad dot bits-pilani dot ac dot in)
Shared Tasks
Niyamika at BHASHA Task 1: Word-Level Transliteration for English-Hindi Mixed Text in Grammar Correction Using MT5 pdf slides demo
  • Rucha Ambaliya (rucha dot ambaliya at gmail dot com)
  • Mahika Dugar (justmahikadugar at gmail dot com)
  • Pruthwik Mishra (pruthwikmishra at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
Team Horizon at BHASHA Task 1: Multilingual IndicGEC with Transformer-based Grammatical Error Correction Models pdf slides
  • Manav Dhamecha (u24ai034 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Sunil Jaat (u24ai026 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Gaurav Damor (u24ai063 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Pruthwik Mishra (pruthwikmishra at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
Team Horizon at BHASHA Task 2: Fine-tuning Multilingual Transformers for Indic Word Grouping pdf slides
  • Manav Dhamecha (u24ai034 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Gaurav Damor (u24ai063 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Sunil Jaat (u24ai026 at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
  • Pruthwik Mishra (pruthwikmishra at aid dot svnit dot ac dot in)
A3-108 at BHASHA Task1: Asymmetric BPE configuration for Grammar Error Correction pdf poster
  • Saumitra Yadav (saumitra dot yadav at research dot iiit dot ac dot in)
  • Manish Shrivastava (m dot shrivastava at iiit dot ac dot in)
DLRG at BHASHA: Task 1 (IndicGEC): A Hybrid Neurosymbolic Approach for Tamil and Malayalam Grammatical Error Correction pdf poster slides
  • Akshay Ramesh ()
  • Ratnavel Rajalakshmi (rajalakshmi dot r at vit dot ac dot in)
akhilrajeevp at BHASHA Task 1: Minimal-Edit Instruction Tuning for Low-Resource Indic GEC pdf poster
  • Akhil Rajeev P (akhilrajeev at cdac dot in)
Demonstration
"When Data is Scarce, Prompt Smarter": Approaches to Grammatical Error Correction in Low-Resource Settings demo slides
  • Somsubhra De ()
  • Harsh Kumar ()
  • Arun Prakash A ()