Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2026)

AmericasNLP 2026 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, USA, on July 3–4, 2026.

Shared Task

To motivate the NLP community to increase research efforts on Indigenous and endangered languages, AmericasNLP 2026 will feature a new shared task about image captioning of culturally relevant images. The results of the shared task will be presented during the in-person workshop in San Diego. More information can be found at the AmericasNLP 2026 GitHub repository and on the shared task page.

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. Full Call for papers: CFP

Invited Speaker

Jacqueline Brixey

Talk title: Developing technology for the Choctaw language

Abstract: This talk will discuss useful roles where technologies can be used to improve and ease the process of language documentation and revitalization. I will present some of my past and present projects developing Indigenous language technology, including a chatbot for gaining conversational fluency, a speech-to-text system, and a dictionary website. I'll also share my experiences working with language communities.

Bio: Dr. Jacqueline Brixey is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2024. In 2025, she joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Anna Julia Cooper Fellow, and will start as an Assistant Professor with a dual appointment in the Language Sciences and School of Information departments in 2026. Her work focuses on developing language technologies for endangered and Indigenous languages, including her tribe's language.

Program July 3th, 2026

10:00–10:30
AmericasNLP ONLINE poster session
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93563703087
11:00–12:30
AmericasNLP poster session (in the poster room!)

Session 1 - Chair: Katharina von der Wense

14:00
Opening Remarks — Manuel Mager
14:15
Keynote — Jacqueline Brixey
15:10
Paper 1: Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua Varieties
15:25
Non-archival 1: Syntax as a Rosetta Stone: Universal Dependencies for In-Context Coptic Translation — Lightning talk
15:30–16:00
Coffee break

Session 2 - Rolando Coto

16:00
Shared Task Overview — Minh Duc Bui
16:20
ST1: Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning: Gators submission for AmericasNLP 2026 shared task
16:30
ST2: Schema-Constrained Image Captioning for Five Low-Resource Indigenous Languages
16:40
ST3: Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image Captioning
16:50
Paper 2: Bridging Digital Tools for Linguistic Documentation and Revitalization
17:05
Paper 3: IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous Languages
17:20
Closing remarks - Shruti Rijhwani
Evening
ComputEL-AmericasNLP joint dinner (w/ registration only)
Design: Rebeca Guerrero and Manuel Mager