4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas

AmericasNLP 2024 will be co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico!

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• Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research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
• Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages
• NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas

Submissions will be accepted until March 22, 2024 via softconf: submission portal

Shared Task

This year the workshop will present a shared task with two tracks:

• A machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages.
• A shared task on morphological adaptation to generate educational examples.

More information coming soon.

Invited Speakers

• Graham Neubig (multilingual NLP and ML research).
• Jaime Pérez González (linguistics research on critically endangered South American languages; field linguistics).

Mentoring Program

Coming soon.

Important Dates

• Start of the anonymity period: February 17, 2024
• Submission deadline: March 22, 2024
• ARR commitment deadline (without modifications): March 22, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: April 19, 2024
• Camera ready papers due: April 26, 2024
• Workshop: June 20 or 21, 2024

All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Organizing Committee

• Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika@gmail.com
• Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi@colorado.edu
• Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind, rijhwani@google.com
• Arturo Oncevay, JP Morgan AI Research, arturo.oncevay@jpmorgan.com
• Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir@fing.edu.uy
• Robert Pugh, Indiana University, Bloomington, pughrob@iu.edu
• Katharina Kann, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, katharina.kann@colorado.edu