AmericasNLP

🚨#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. #NLProc

Deadline: May 1, 2026 More information and registration: l1nq.com/DU3Tk

🚨#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. #NLProc

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

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

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! 🎉🥳

🎉 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! ✨ #NLProc #NAACL2025

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 ▶️github.com/ElotlMX/py-elo… Poster today #NAACL2025 @AmericasNLP

"Long Life to the indigenous languages of the Americas." Elias Quispe. Seen at @AmericasNLP 2025

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!

✨Join us for the AmericasNLP Workshop today ✨ We have an exciting lineup of keynote talks, paper presentations, and posters! In-person at NAACL 2025 or virtually on Zoom. #NLProc #NAACL2025

🚨The 2025 AmericasNLP Workshop is in just 2 DAYS! Join us on May 4th, 2025! The workshop will be in Albuquerque (co-located with #NAACL2025) and virtually on Zoom. We'll have: ✨Invited Talks 📜Paper Presentations 📊Posters 🗣️Panel Schedule here: turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/an…

We’re happy to announce that AmericasNLP will be able to provide $500 in travel support to up to 3 people who need assistance to attend the #AmericasNLP2025 workshop on May 4 in Albuquerque, USA. Application link: tinyurl.com/ANLP-support 💥Deadline: March 31, 2025💥 #NLProc

🚨📣 the AmericasNLP submission deadline is *today*, March 12! We look forward to your long paper, short paper, and extended abstract submissions to the workshop! The workshop is co-located with NAACL 2025. Submission link: softconf.com/naacl2025/amer…

🚨🚨 The submission deadline for (1) the machine translation shared task and the metrics shared task is postponed to March 12! More info about the tasks and data below! Translation shared task: turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/20… Metrics shared task: turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/20…

🚨📣 The submission deadline to the AmericasNLP workshop is postponed to March 12! We welcome long paper, short paper, and abstract submissions: softconf.com/naacl2025/amer… More info: turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/20…

🔥The #AmericasNLP25 machine translation shared task features two new languages!🔥 Wayuu is spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. It is part of the Arawak language family. Awajún is spoken by the Aguaruna people in northern Peru and belongs to the Chicham language family. #NLProc

🚨Exactly one month left until the #AmericasNLP25 submission deadline!🚨 Are you working on NLP for Indigenous languages of the Americas? Or NLP for low-resource languages more generally? Consider submitting your work before March 7th EOD! CfP: turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/Am… #NLProc

Translation from and into Indigenous languages is still an open problem in #NLProc. A classic is back: the #AmericasNLP25 machine translation shared task! Can LLMs beat seq2seq models? Or will another type of system win? Let‘s find out!🤩 Details: tinyurl.com/amnlp-1

Teaching and learning of Indigenous languages can be tricky due to a lack of educational material. Participants of the second #AmericasNLP25 shared task will develop #NLProc systems that can create exercises for learners of Indigenous languages. Details: tinyurl.com/amnlp-st2