5th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas
AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, on May 4th, 2025.You can find the full program here.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Alexis Palmer

Dr. Palmer is an expert in computational discourse and semantics; computational linguistics for low-resource languages and language documentation; discourse structure and coherence, and modes of discourse and social analytics, including automated detection of offensive language in social media. She received her PhD from UT Austin in 2009, has held a number of prestigious post docs and research positions in Germany (including positions at the Institute for Computational Linguistics in Heidelberg and the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim). Until her move to CU in 2021, she was an assistant professor at the University of North Texas, Denton. Dr. Palmer brings a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER grant with her to CU.
Elias Quispe Chura

Elias Quispe Chura is a linguist. He has worked with the Jaqi Aru Virtual Community since 2011, translating newspaper articles for Global Voices Aymara and publishing articles on Wikipedia in Aymara. Later, he translated, along with Jaqi Aru members and others, technological terms for the Facebook, Orbot, and Telegram platforms. He is currently updating the customized version of Telegram in Aymara.
Shared Task
This year the workshop presents a shared task with three tracks:- Shared Task 1: A machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages.
- Shared Task 2: A shared task on morphological adaptation to generate educational examples.
- Shared Task 3: A shared task on creating metrics for MT in indigenous languages.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: March 12, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2025
- Camera ready papers due: March 27, 2025
- Workshop: May 4, 2025
Organizing Committee
- Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywirrarika@gmail.com
- Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.oncevay@ed.ac.uk
- Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi@colorado.edu
- Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijhwani@google.com
- Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay, luischir@fing.edu.uy
- Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pughrob@iu.edu
- Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College, rolando.a.coto.solano@dartmouth.edu
- Katharina Kann, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, katharina.kann@colorado.edu