SIXTH WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS
AmericasNLP 2026 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego,
California, USA!
CALL FOR PAPERS
The goal of AmericasNLP is to encourage and increase the visibility of
work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage
research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and
speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and
professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of
endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to
promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages.
We invite the submission of:
* Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial,
original, and unpublished research
* Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8
pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format
of the original publication).
Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly,
as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described
approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
* Creation of datasets for NLP applications
* Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems
* Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP
* Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning
* Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning
* Machine translation of low-resource languages
* Applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages
of the Americas
* Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages
* NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas
* Ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by
Indigenous communities
* Language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context
of NLP models and research
Submissions will be accepted until April 15th, 2026 via softconf:
submission portal
Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but
strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do _not_
count towards the page limit.
SHARED TASK
To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous
and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2026 will feature a new shared
task about image captioning of culturally relevant images. The results
of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in
San Diego. More information can be found here.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission Deadline: April 15th _(After the ACL acceptance
notification)_
* Notification of Acceptance: May 10th
* Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 22nd
* Workshop: July 3 or 4
All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Manuel Mager, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz,
[email protected]
* Arturo Oncevay, Independent, [email protected]
* Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder,
[email protected]
* Minh Duc Bui, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz,
[email protected]
* Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind, [email protected]
* Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay,
[email protected]
* Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, [email protected]
* Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College,
[email protected]
* John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, [email protected]
* Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes
Gutenberg University of Mainz, [email protected]
CONTACT
Contact: [email protected]
Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/
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