Now our first oral presentation, a virtual talk by Clare Benét Post on tagging quechua dialects. Such an important work! Quechua is such a large linguistic family, not a single language. Happening at @AmericasNLP at @aclmeeting 2026.
We are starting @AmericasNLP 2026 with the amazing keynote talk by Jaqueline Brixey: developing technology for the Chactaw languages. Happening at @aclmeeting 2026
The sixth AmericasNLP workshop has begun! Join us in the Old Town conference room in-person or on Zoom!
We have an afternoon of great research papers and shared task presentations coming up.
As you might have noticed, the #AmericasNLP website was down. But: It‘s back now and better than ever!🥳😄
➡️ https://t.co/8Lh8oc3UQI
Due to this, we have extended the #AmericasNLP26 paper deadline to *April 20, 2026*. We‘re looking forward to your interesting work!
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🚨#AmericasNLP26 shared task🚨
Do you know what‘s shown in this image?
Our new ST challenges participants to develop systems that generate culturally grounded captions for images depicting things from Indigenous cultures, written in the Indigenous languages themselves.
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Winner of shared task on machine translation metrics for Indigenous languages: FUSE: A Ridge and Random Forest-Based Metric for Evaluating MT in Indigenous Languages
Rahul Raja and Arpita Vats
The shared task session of the workshop is starting *now*!
We had three shared tasks this year, covering a diverse set of languages and goals. Join us at the workshop to learn more!
Thank you to all the participants and congratulations to the winning teams! 🎉🥳
Winner of shared task on creation of educational materials: Leveraging Dictionaries and Grammar Rules for the Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages
Authors: Justin Vasselli, Haruki Sakajo, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Frederikus Hudi and Taro Watanabe
🎉 Exciting first session with paper presentations and a keynote talk at the AmericasNLP 2025 workshop!
We have much more lined up for the rest of the day -- join us in-person or on Zoom! ✨
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For many languages, before building big downstream applications, we first need fundamental blocks of processing:
We present Py-elotl a colaborative open-source project for some of the languages spoken in Mexico
▶️https://t.co/eg6O5xdGq0
Poster today #NAACL2025@AmericasNLP
The 2025 workshop has begun with @pywirrarika's opening remarks!
We had a diverse set of languages and 27 systems submitted to the shared tasks this year.
Thank you to all the teams that participated!