First CFP: AmericasNLP 2025 @ NAACL 2025

[John Ortega]

Hello.

Please excuse any cross-posting issues.
We are happy to announce the following workshop at NAACL this year!

-- Fifth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas --
AmericasNLP 2025 will be co-located with NAACL2025  in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, USA!

-- Call for Papers --
The goal of AmericasNLP 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original, and unpublished research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;

applications of, and innovation with LLMs for indigenous languages of
the Americas;

morphology and phonology of low-resource languages;

NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas;

ethical considerations for research on languages spoken by Indigenous
communities;

language activism, revitalization, and sovereignty, in the context of
NLP models and research.

Submissions will be accepted until March 7th, 2025 via softconf:
https://softconf.com/naacl2025/americasnlp


Note: Limitation section and ethics statement are not mandatory, but
strongly encouraged. If they are part of your submission, they do not
count towards the page limit.

-- Shared Tasks --
To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous
and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2025 features three shared tasks:

machine translation of truly low-resource languages;

creation of educational resources for indigenous languages;

and our new shared task of developing metrics for MT in indigenous
languages.

The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person
workshop in Albuquerque.
More information can be found at
https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2025_st.html.

-- Important Dates --
Submission deadline: March 7th, 2025

Notification of acceptance: March 31th, 2025

Camera ready papers due: April 11th, 2025

Workshop:  May 4th, 2025

All deadlines are 11:59pm anywhere on Earth (AoE).

-- Organizing Committee --
Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs, pywir...@gmail.com

Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh, a.on...@ed.ac.uk

Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder,
abteen....@colorado.edu

Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research, rijh...@google.com

Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay,
luis...@fing.edu.uy

Robert Pugh, University of Indiana, pug...@iu.edu

Rolando Coto-Solano, Dartmouth College,
rolando.a....@dartmouth.edu

John E. Ortega, Northeastern University, j.or...@northeastern.edu

Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes
Gutenberg University of Mainz, kathari...@colorado.edu

-- Contact --
Contact: americas.n...@gmail.com
Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/