The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024)

First Call for Papers

The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) will be co-located with the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024), which is scheduled to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, between June 16-21, 2024.

The goal of the workshop 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• Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research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

Important dates: 

• Start of the anonymity period: February 10, 2024

• Submission deadline: March 10, 2024

• Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024

• Camera ready papers due: April 24, 2024

• Workshop: June 20 or 21, 2024

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).

Link to submission portal:

https://softconf.com/naacl2024/americasnlp

The workshop also includes:

• A machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages

• A shared task on morphological adaptation to generate educational examples

We also have a diverse set of invited speakers, focused on bridging the gap between linguists, NLP, and machine learning research!

• Graham Neubig (multilingual NLP and ML research)

• Jaime Pérez González (linguistics research on critically endangered South American languages; field linguistics)

Organizing Committee

• Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs

• Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder

• Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind

• Arturo Oncevay, JP Morgan AI Research

• Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

• Robert Pugh, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

More information and contact information can be found at http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/.