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*The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025)*
*https://www.loresmt.org/ https://www.loresmt.org/*
*@ NAACL 2025 (May 3–4, 2025)*
*Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.*
*SUBMISSION*
* https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMThttps://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT*
*TIMELINE*
*Paper submission due:* *February 13, 2025* (Anywhere on Earth)
*Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline:* *February 27, 2025*
*Notification of acceptance:* March 8, 2025
*Camera-ready papers due:* March 17, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
*Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline):* April 8, 2025
*Workshop dates at NAACL 2025:* May 3–4, 2025
*SCOPE*
Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, we introduce LoResMT 2025 workshop at NAACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output.
*TOPICS*
We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.
- Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages
- Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages
- Pivot MT for low-resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages
- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation
*SUBMISSION INFORMATION*
We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the NAACL submission guideline for further information https://2025.naacl.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-details. Accepted papers will be published at ACL Anthology in the NAACL 2025 and will be presented at the conference.
Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at NAACL 2025. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided.
Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2025.naacl.org/).
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway
Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines)
Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Ali Hatami, University of Galway Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), University of Trento Anna Currey, AWS AI Labs Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Dana Moukheiber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Gaurav Negi, University of Galway
Jinliang Lu, Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences John Philip McCrae, University of Galway Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University Majid Latifi, UPC University Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Milind Agarwal, George Mason University
Mathias Müller, University of Zurich
Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University and Lexical Computing Pengwei Li, Meta Rashid Ahmad, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich
Santanu Pal, Wipro Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki
Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Wen Lai, LMU Munich Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University Yasmin Moslem, Bering Lab Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University
*CONTACT*
Please email loresmt@googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.