📰 AmericasNLP 2026 — accepted papers

AmericasNLP 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), held in San Diego, California, USA, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 27 papers of it; our library holds 9 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, United States · 🗓 July 2026

All accepted papers (27)

The most cited first; 9 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Systematic Comparison of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: Evidence from Indigenous Languages of the AmericasDrew Stackhouse, Justin Debenedetto3 citations · our summary
2. 6fanle Submission to the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Wixarika Image CaptioningJi Wang, Hanqi Yangour summary
3. A data-centric approach to performance improvement in under-resourced ASR: The case of Dënë Sųłıné ↗Olga Kriukova, Olga Lovick, Antti Arppe
4. Bridging Digital Tools for Linguistic Documentation and Revitalization ↗Christopher Haberland, Carly Crowther, Jingnong Qu et al.
5. Bringing Mapudungun into the Modern MT Ecosystem: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for NLLB-200 Fine-TuningIsaac Thompson, Brandon Rogers, Eric Ringgerour summary
6. Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua ↗Elwin Huaman, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Johanna Cordova et al.
7. Corpora duplication for NLP in low-resource languages: A case study of Nahuatl ↗Juan Jose Guzman Landa, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Luis Moreno Jimenez et al.
8. Culturally Grounded Image Captioning in Indigenous Languages with Vision-Language Models: Cascaded and Single-Stage Approaches ↗Mirelle Bueno, Sushil Garg
9. Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Guaraní with Multimodal Prompting: IUHoosiers at AmericasNLP 2026Wenchen Shi, Phakphum Artkaew, Luke Gesslerour summary
10. Deer, Deities, and Dancing: Culturally Biased LLM Hallucination in Low-Resource Wixárika Translation ↗Henry Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran
11. Evaluating Frontier LLM Translation Capability for LakotaLance Robertsonour summary
12. Findings of the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Cultural Image Captioning for Indigenous Languages ↗Minh Duc Bui, David Guzmán, Abteen Ebrahimi et al.
13. From Machine Translation to Image Captioning: Training Vision-Language Models for Indigenous Languages of the Americas ↗Luis Lara, Param Raval
14. IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous LanguagesJulia Mainzinger, Jacqueline Brixeyour summary
15. Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua VarietiesClaire Benét Post, Alexis Palmerour summary
16. Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image CaptioningJustin Vasselli, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Shintaro Ozaki et al.our summary
17. Neural Text-to-Speech for Myaamia: Speech Synthesis for an Indigenous Algonquian Language ↗Anita Baral, John Femiani, Hunter Lockwood et al.
18. On the Robustness of Morphosyntactic Transformation with Large Language Models: The Case of Quechua CollaoPool Pocco, Arturo Oncevayour summary
19. QomL'aqtaqa: A Qom–Spanish Parallel Corpus for Natural Language Processing with Machine Translation Evaluation ↗Viviana Cotik, Aleksei Korablev, Paola Cúneo et al.
20. RAN: Resource Abundance Notation for Languages in NLP ↗Jared Coleman, Tainã Coleman, Bhaskar Krishnmachari
21. Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning: Gators submission for AmericasNLP 2026 shared task ↗Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Dzmitry Kasinets et al.
22. Schema-Constrained Image Captioning for Five Low-Resource Indigenous Languages ↗Diego Cuadros, Nicholas Leeds, Amanda Avalos et al.
23. The Power of Simplicity: N-Grams and Transformers in Nahuatl Language Identification ↗Luis Armando Mercado-Campos, Robert Pugh, Alexis Palmer
24. Toward a Coarse-Labeled Spoken Language Identification Dataset for Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Samoan from US Broadcast Archives ↗Yangyang Chen, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky
25. Towards a Community-accessible Cahuilla corpus: Developing HTR for J.P. Harrington's handwritten fieldnotes on Mountain Cahuilla ↗Ray Huaute, Jacqueline Brixey

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (9)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. A Systematic Comparison of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: Evidence from Indigenous Languages of the AmericasWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Drew Stackhouse, Justin Debenedetto2026 · 3 citations
2. Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Guaraní with Multimodal Prompting: IUHoosiers at AmericasNLP 2026Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Wenchen Shi, Phakphum Artkaew, Luke Gessler2026 · 1 citation
3. Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image CaptioningWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Justin Vasselli, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Shintaro Ozaki, et al.2026 · 1 citation
4. 6fanle Submission to the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Wixarika Image CaptioningWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Ji Wang, Hanqi Yang2026 · 1 citation
5. IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous LanguagesWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Julia Mainzinger, Jacqueline Brixey2026
6. On the Robustness of Morphosyntactic Transformation with Large Language Models: The Case of Quechua CollaoWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Pool Pocco, Arturo Oncevay2026
7. Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua VarietiesWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Claire Benét Post, Alexis Palmer2026
8. Evaluating Frontier LLM Translation Capability for LakotaWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Lance Robertson2026
9. Bringing Mapudungun into the Modern MT Ecosystem: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for NLLB-200 Fine-TuningWorkshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)Isaac Thompson, Brandon Rogers, Eric Ringger2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🌱Low-resource languages (5)🖼️Vision & language (3)🔁Machine translation (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (2)🧩Morphology (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)✂️Tokenization & segmentation (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (9)🖥️Computer Science (9)🤝Social Sciences (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Brigham Young UniversityProvo · United States1 work here🎓Uppsala UniversityUppsala · Sweden1 work here🎓University of Wisconsin–MadisonMadison · United States1 work here🎓University of Colorado BoulderBoulder · United States1 work here🎓Charles Darwin UniversityDarwin · Australia1 work here🎓University of California San DiegoSan Diego · United States1 work here🎓Indiana University BloomingtonBloomington · United States1 work here🎓Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúLima · Peru1 work here

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