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

IIT Bombay, Mumbai,
India

Call For Papers

The BHASHA workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on datasets, benchmarks, resources, annotation, evaluation, and evaluation standards for Indian languages. We warmly encourage submissions from researchers, engineers, and language-technology practitioners who are actively working on resources, evaluation, and human-centric approaches for Indian languages. Please feel free to forward this CFP to interested colleagues and acquaintances who might be interested..

You are requested to submit your research paper using the ARR (ACL Rolling Review): http://aclrollingreview.org.

BHASHA includes two shared tasks, (1) IndicGEC 2025: Grammatical Error Detection and Correction for Indian languages, and (2) IndicWG 2025: Word Group Identification in Indian Languages. Details, task subtasks, and evaluation metrics (Macro-F1, GLEU) are available on the Shared Task page. Organizers encourage participants to join the shared task and submit system papers.

Important Dates AoE

  • Release of shared tasks: August 18, 2025

  • Training data: September 2, 2025

  • Shared task submission: October 10, 2025

  • Paper submission deadline (for direct submission): September 25, 2025

  • ARR commitment deadline (if submitting via ARR): October 30, 2025

  • Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2025

  • Camera-ready due: November 15, 2025

Contact

If you have any problems or questions, please contact us via e-mail at: bhashaworkshop@gmail.com

We solicit original, unpublished work on topics including (but not limited to):

  • Creation and evaluation of datasets/benchmarks for Indian languages
  • Annotation schemes, guidelines, and tooling for consistent labeling
  • Harmonization and standardization of formats and metrics across Indian languages
  • Resource collection, curation, and best practices for low-resource Indian languages
  • Language-specific modeling challenges (morphology, free word order, script issues)
  • Human-centric evaluation, fairness, accessibility, and usability studies
  • Cross-lingual transfer, multilingual models, and evaluation for Indian languages
  • Ethical, legal, and community-driven approaches to dataset creation and release
  • Methods for domain-specific tasks for India in Indian languages (e.g., in Healthcare, Law, Education)

We also invite submissions describing system reports, negative results, and position papers that advance the workshop goals.

Submission Instructions

Peer-reviewed submissions are accepted via ARR (ACL Rolling Review) or via direct submission. Please follow the detailed instructions on the workshop website for the preferred format, anonymization policy, and templates. If you plan to submit a shared-task system paper, please follow the shared-task timeline and submission instructions available on the Shared Task page.