Opening Ceremony

**Title:** The Power of Many: How Cross-Cultural NLP Will Drive Innovation and Lead to Better Systems<br>
**Abstract:** In recent years, NLP has made remarkable strides, with language and language-vision models transforming applications across a wide range of domains—including healthcare, education, social sciences, humanities, the arts. Yet, many of these models and the datasets they rely on reflect only a small fraction of the world’s population, which often leads to gaps in performance, biases, and missed opportunities for impact. In this talk, I will draw on insights from over a decade of cross-cultural research to highlight key limitations in current benchmarks and models, from their narrow linguistic and cultural scope to challenges in evaluation and application design. I will share key lessons learned along the way and make the case for cross-cultural NLP—one that more effectively captures the diversity of behaviors, beliefs, and linguistic expressions across different communities—not only as a way to build stronger and more robust systems but also to foster an even more innovative research community.

Keynote Speaker: Rada Mihalcea

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APP.1: NLP Applications

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GEN.1: Generation

IAM.1: Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP

Industry.1

**This session is In-Person ONLY**
<br><br>BoF event for Southeast-Asian NLP, discussing current topics, challenges, and collaboration opportunities.

Mentorship on NLP Research

MTM.1: Machine Translation, Multilinguality and Language Diversity

R&E.1: Resources and Evaluation

EBF.1: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness

### Welcome to 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Welcome to the 2025 meeting of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics! I am proud to help organize the first NAACL conference to carry the new name of our organization, one that emphasizes inclusion for all of the Americas. I am also pleased to welcome you to Albuquerque, New Mexico, a state whose unique blend of cultural influences will make for an excellent backdrop for NAACL 2025, especially with this year’s special theme on NLP in a Multicultural World.<br>
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