4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas

AmericasNLP 2024 will bo on June 21, 2024, co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico! You can find the full program here.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Graham Neubig
Graham Neubig is an associate professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on natural language processing, with a particular interest in fundamentals, applications, and understanding of large language models for tasks such as question answering, code generation, and multilingual applications. His final goal is that every person in the world should be able to communicate with each-other, and with computers in their own language. He also contributes to making NLP research more accessible through open publishing of research papers, advanced NLP course materials and video lectures, and open-source software, all of which are available on his web site.
Fidencio Briceño Chel
Fidencio Briceño Chel has a degree in Linguistics and Literature from the Autonomous University of Yucatán. He has doctoral studies in Anthropological Linguistics from UNAM. He held the Research Directorate of the National Institute of Indigenous Languages ​​in 2006, and has been since 1991 a professor-researcher at INAH. Since 2000 he has been coordinator of the Linguistics Section of the INAH Yucatán. He is co-author of dictionaries of the Mayan language; Author of numerous articles on the Mayan language and culture, as well as books for the dissemination and teaching of the Mayan language. He received the “Wigberto Jiménez Moreno National Award” for the best Master's thesis in the field of Linguistics (1998), and the National Award for journalism and information for his editorial and journalistic collaboration in the production of the Cultural Radio Magazine: “He speaks of the mayab.” IMER (2001). He received the 2016 Yuri Knorosov Medal in the International Festival of Mayan Culture and the 2019 Pánfilo Novelo medal for the defense and dissemination of the Mayan language. Since 2020, he has coordinated the Curricular Academic Group to create the University of Indigenous Languages ​​of Mexico. Today he directs the State Center for Humanistic Training, Research and Dissemination of Yucatán.

List of Accepted Papers

The following papers have been accepted at the workshop:

Long Papers

Short Papers

System Descriptions for Shared Task 1: Machine Translation Systems for Indigenous Languages

System Descriptions for Shared Task 2: Creation of Educational Materials for Indigenous Languages

Previously Published Work that will be presented also at the Workshop

Shared Task

This year the workshop presents a shared task with two tracks:

Important Dates

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

Organizing Committee

Design: Rebeca Guerrero and Manuel Mager