NLP Machine Learning

Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas

AmericasNLP 2026

Date 3-4 July 2026
Location San Diego, United States
Venue ACL 2026, San Diego, California, USA
Format In Person

About this Conference

A workshop focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Indigenous languages of the Americas. The event aims to encourage research on computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and speech technologies for Indigenous and endangered languages, while connecting researchers from underrepresented communities.

Call for Papers

The workshop invites submissions of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), and technical reports (8 pages). Topics include dataset creation, linguistic typology, machine translation, NLP applications, LLM innovations, and ethical considerations for Indigenous language research. A shared task on image captioning of culturally relevant images will be featured.

Important Dates

  • Full Paper Submission April 15, 2026
  • Notification May 10, 2026
  • Camera Ready May 22, 2026
  • Conference dates 3-4 July 2026