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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)*
*https://www.loresmt.org/ https://www.loresmt.org/*
*@ EACL 2026 (March 24-29, 2026)*
*Rabat, Morocco*
*SUBMISSION*
ARR submission link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/LoResMT
*TIMELINE*
- Submission deadline: December 19, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026
- Camera-ready paper due: February 3, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth)
- Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): February 24, 2026
- Workshop dates at EACL 2026: TBD
- EACL 202 Main Conference: March 24-29, 2026
*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, NAACL 2025, we introduce LoResMT 2026 workshop at EACL 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. Fundamental work on low-resource languages in MT and NLP is still crucial and unavoidable. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary natural language processing (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 for low-resource languages
- 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
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers of 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 EACL submission guidelines for further information https://2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/. Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2026 proceedings 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 EACL 2026. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review.
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://2026.eacl.org/registration).
*Shared Tasks: *
We are going to have a machine translation competition for several low resource Turkic languages, namely, Chuvash, Bashkir, Tatar and Kazakh. The pairs you can evaluate your models are: Chuvash-English, Chuvash-Russian, Bashkir-English, Bashkir-Russian, Tatar-English, Kazakh-Russian. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with training data for these language pairs, but nevertheless you can use any data you find useful or collect by yourself. We expect you to share your findings as a report. Best reports will be included in the LoResMT proceedings. for futher information please visit to LoResMT website.
*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)*
Atul Kr. Ojha
Chao-Hong Liu
Ekaterina Vylomova
Flammie Pirinen
Jonathan Washington
Nathaniel Oco
Xiaobing Zhao
*CONTACT*
Please email loresmt@googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.