Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs for Everyday Knowledge
Birds-of-a-Feather Session at EMNLP 2025
This BoF brings together researchers and practitioners working on Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs for Everyday Knowledge with a focus on everyday and culturally grounded knowledge. As LLMs increasingly move beyond text into multimodal and spoken interactions, there is a growing need to understand how these models acquire, represent, and reason about culture, context, and everyday human knowledge, especially for low-resource languages and communities.
The session aims to foster open discussion around datasets, benchmarks, modeling strategies, and evaluation methodologies for culturally grounded multimodal AI.
📅 Event Details
- Date: 06 November 2025
- Time: 16:30 – 18:00
- Room: A209
Program
🗓️ Program
| Time | Title | Speaker / Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:30 – 16:40 |
Opening Slides |
Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute | In-person |
| 16:40 – 17:00 |
A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA Slides |
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Qatar Computing Research Institute | In-person |
| 17:00 – 17:20 |
Grounding Multilingual Multimodal LLMs With Cultural Knowledge Slides |
Jean de Dieu Nyandwi, Carnegie Mellon University | In-person |
| 17:20 – 17:40 |
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset Slides |
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, University of British Columbia | In-person |
| 17:40 – 17:55 | Open Discussion | — | In-person |
| 17:55 – 18:00 | Closing | — | In-person |