📰 Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 56 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) ↗Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum et al.2 citations
2. Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá ↗Aramide Adebesin, Zainab Tairu1 citation
3. Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma ↗Mamadou K. Keita, Adwoa Bremang, Huy Le et al.1 citation
4. Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering ↗Vlad-Andrei Negoiță, Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea1 citation
5. Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation ↗Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur et al.1 citation
6. Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data ↗Zaruhi Navasardyan, Bagratuni Minsayan, Spartak Bughdaryan et al.1 citation
7. Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models ↗Joy Olusanya1 citation
8. Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac ↗Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero1 citation

All accepted papers (56)

The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) ↗Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum et al.2 citations
2. Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá ↗Aramide Adebesin, Zainab Tairu1 citation
3. Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma ↗Mamadou K. Keita, Adwoa Bremang, Huy Le et al.1 citation
4. Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering ↗Vlad-Andrei Negoiță, Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea1 citation
5. Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation ↗Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur et al.1 citation
6. Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data ↗Zaruhi Navasardyan, Bagratuni Minsayan, Spartak Bughdaryan et al.1 citation
7. Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models ↗Joy Olusanya1 citation
8. Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac ↗Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero1 citation
9. A Comprehensive Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Persian Classification Tasks ↗Shakib Yazdani, Cristina España-Bonet, Eleftherios Avramidis et al.
10. Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of NupeUmar Baba Umar, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir, Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammedour summary
11. BanglaIPA: Towards Robust Text-to-IPA Transcription with Contextual Rewriting in Bengali ↗Jakir Hasan, Shrestha Datta, Md Saiful Islam et al.
12. BanglaLlama: LLaMA for Bangla Language ↗Abdullah Khan Zehady, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Naymul Islam et al.
13. BanglaSummEval: Reference-Free Factual Consistency Evaluation for Bangla Summarization ↗Ahmed Rafid, Rumman Adib, Fariya Ahmed et al.
14. Beyond Many-Shot Translation: Scaling In-Context Demonstrations For Low-Resource Machine Translation ↗Luis Frentzen Salim, Esteban Carlin, Alexandre Morinvil et al.
15. Bootstrapping Embeddings for Low Resource Languages ↗Merve Basoz, Andrew Horne, Mattia Opper
16. Competence Collapse in Code-Mixed Generation: Spectral Evidence and Mechanistic Recovery via Cross-Lingual Activation Steering ↗Tanushree Ravindra Pratap Yadav
17. Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré PairFayçal S. A. Ouedraogo, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando et al.our summary
18. Cross-Lingual Emotion Recognition in Balinese Text using Multilingual-LLMs under Peer-Collaborations Settings ↗Putu Kussa Laksana Utama, Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Tsegaye Misikir Tashu
19. Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for POS Tagging in Historical Germanic Low-Resource LanguagesIrene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwinour summary
20. Do Tokenizers Fail on Informal Hindi Expressions? Evidence from Static, Downstream, and Robustness Analyses ↗Manikandan Ravikiran, Tanmay Tiwari, Vibhu Gupta et al.
21. Domain-Specific Quality Estimation for Machine Translation in Low-Resource Scenarios ↗Namrata Bhalchandra Patil Gurav, Akashdeep Ranu, Archchana Sindhujan et al.
22. Enabling Structured Reasoning in Sindhi with Culturally Grounded Instruction Tuning ↗Mehak Mehak, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Pireh Soomro et al.
23. Escaping the Probability Trap: Mitigating Semantic Drift in Cantonese-Mandarin Translation ↗Yuzhi Liang, Fangqi Chen
24. Evaluating Large Language Models on Lithuanian Grammatical Cases ↗Urtė Jakubauskaitė, Raquel G. Alhama
25. Hebrew Diacritics Restoration using Visual RepresentationYair Elboher, Yuval Pinterour summary

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (5)

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

1. Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for POS Tagging in Historical Germanic Low-Resource LanguagesIrene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwin2026 · 3 citations
2. MTQE.en-he: Machine Translation Quality Estimation for English-HebrewWorkshop on Language Models for Low-Resource LanguagesAndy Rosenbaum, Assaf Siani, Ilan Kernerman2026 · 2 citations
3. Hebrew Diacritics Restoration using Visual RepresentationYair Elboher, Yuval Pinter2026 · 1 citation
4. Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré PairWorkshop on Language Models for Low-Resource LanguagesFayçal S. A. Ouedraogo, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of NupeWorkshop on Language Models for Low-Resource LanguagesUmar Baba Umar, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir, Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed2026 · 1 citation

🧭 Top topics

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

🔁Machine translation (3)🌱Low-resource languages (3)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (2)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (2)Semitic languages (2)English (2)🔤Part-of-speech tagging (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)French (1)Biblical Hebrew (1)Modern Hebrew (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (5)🖥️Computer Science (5)

🧑‍🔬 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.

🎓University of LuxembourgLuxembourg · Luxembourg1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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