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• Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research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, jmagerho@uni-mainz.de
• Arturo Oncevay, Independent, arturo.oncevay@gmail.com
• Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder, abteen.ebrahimi@colorado.edu
• Minh Duc Bui, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, minhducbui@uni-mainz.de
• Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind, shrutirijhwani@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
• John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.ortega@northeastern.edu
• Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, katharina.kann@colorado.edu

Contact

Contact: americas.nlp.workshop@gmail.com
Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/