📰 LoResMT 2026 — accepted papers

LoResMT 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT), held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 24 papers of it; our library holds 15 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, Morocco · 🗓 March 2026

Most cited papers

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

1. Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz et al.1 citation · our summary
2. Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine TranslationMunief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý1 citation · our summary
4. Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAGDavid Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau1 citation · our summary
5. Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing ↗Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Christan Grant et al.1 citation
6. No One-Size-Fits-All: Building Systems For Translation to Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Chuvash Using Synthetic And Original Data ↗Dmitry Karpov1 citation
7. Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource SettingsAdrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (24)

The most cited first; 15 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz et al.1 citation · our summary
2. Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine TranslationMunief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams et al.1 citation · our summary
3. Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý1 citation · our summary
4. Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAGDavid Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau1 citation · our summary
5. Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing ↗Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Christan Grant et al.1 citation
6. No One-Size-Fits-All: Building Systems For Translation to Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Chuvash Using Synthetic And Original Data ↗Dmitry Karpov1 citation
7. Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource SettingsAdrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla et al.1 citation · our summary
8. A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models for Russian-Kazakh TranslationGleb Shanshinour summary
9. A Fine-Grained Linguistic Evaluation of Low-Resource Luxembourgish–English MTNils Rehlingerour summary
10. Adapting Multilingual NMT to Language Isolates: The Role of Proxy Language Selection and Dialect Handling for Nivkh ↗Eleonora Izmailova, Alexey Sorokin, Pavel Grashchenkov
11. Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine TranslationKaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyyaour summary
12. Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology TranslationKurt Abela, Marc Tanti, Claudia Borgour summary
13. CTC Regularization for Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation ↗Zachary Hopton, Rico Sennrich
14. Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?Aishwarya Ramasethu, Rohin Garg, Niyathi Allu et al.our summary
15. Comparing LLM-Based Translation Approaches for Extremely Low-Resource Languages ↗Jared Coleman, Ruben Rosales, Kira Toal et al.
16. Data-Centric Approach at the LoResMT 2026 Turkic Translation Challenge: Russian-KyrgyzDmitry Novokshanovour summary
17. DevLake at LoResMT 2026: The Impact of Pre-training and Model Scale on Russian-Bashkir Low-Resource TranslationVyacheslav Tyurinour summary
18. Ensemble Methods for Low-Resource Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation: When Diverse Models Beat Better ModelsAdilet Metinovour summary
19. LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System DescriptionVladimir Panovour summary
20. Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages: English-Tatar ↗Alexander Dikov
21. Navigating Data Scarcity in Low-Resource English-Tatar Translation using LLM Fine-Tuning ↗Ahmed Khaled Khamis
22. Script Correction and Synthetic Pivoting: Adapting Tencent HY-MT for Low-Resource Turkic TranslationBolgov Maximour summary
23. Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary ↗Maximiliano Duran, Max Silberztein
24. Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies for Multilingual Machine Translation ↗Kenji Imamura, Masao Utiyama

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (15)

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

1. Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz, et al.2026 · 3 citations
2. Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAGDavid Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau2026 · 1 citation
3. Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource SettingsWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Adrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla, et al.2026 · 1 citation
4. Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Aishwarya Ramasethu, Rohin Garg, Niyathi Allu, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý2026 · 1 citation
6. Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Munief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams, et al.2026 · 1 citation
7. Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Kurt Abela, Marc Tanti, Claudia Borg2026
8. Script Correction and Synthetic Pivoting: Adapting Tencent HY-MT for Low-Resource Turkic TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Bolgov Maxim2026
9. Ensemble Methods for Low-Resource Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation: When Diverse Models Beat Better ModelsWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Adilet Metinov2026
10. Data-Centric Approach at the LoResMT 2026 Turkic Translation Challenge: Russian-KyrgyzWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Dmitry Novokshanov2026
11. LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System DescriptionWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Vladimir Panov2026
12. A Fine-Grained Linguistic Evaluation of Low-Resource Luxembourgish–English MTWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Nils Rehlinger2026
13. A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models for Russian-Kazakh TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Gleb Shanshin2026
14. Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya2026
15. DevLake at LoResMT 2026: The Impact of Pre-training and Model Scale on Russian-Bashkir Low-Resource TranslationWorkshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)Vyacheslav Tyurin2026

🧭 Top topics

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

🔁Machine translation (12)🌱Low-resource languages (12)English (3)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (2)🧠Language models & pretraining (1)🕎Hebrew & Aramaic (1)Biblical Hebrew (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (15)🖥️Computer Science (15)

🧑‍🔬 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 · Luxembourg2 works here🎓King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsDhahran · Saudi Arabia1 work here🎓University of Engineering and Technology LahoreLahore · Pakistan1 work here🎓Indian Institute of Technology BombayMumbai · India1 work here🎓The University of MelbourneMelbourne · Australia1 work here🎓ITMO UniversitySt Petersburg · Russia1 work here🎓Masaryk UniversityBrno · Czechia1 work here🔬Luxembourg Institute of Science and TechnologyBelvaux · Luxembourg1 work here🎓De La Salle UniversityManila · Philippines1 work here

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