#AmericasNLP25

🔥The #AmericasNLP25 machine translation shared task features two new languages!🔥

Wayuu is spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. It is part of the Arawak language family.

Awajún is spoken by the Aguaruna people in northern Peru and belongs to the Chicham language family.

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First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistic...

Translation from and into Indigenous languages is still an open problem in #NLProc.

A classic is back: the #AmericasNLP25 machine translation shared task! Can LLMs beat seq2seq models? Or will another type of system win? Let‘s find out!🤩

Details:
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...

First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistic...

Teaching and learning of Indigenous languages can be tricky due to a lack of educational material.

Participants of the second #AmericasNLP25 shared task will develop #NLProc systems that can create exercises for learners of Indigenous languages.

Details:
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...

First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistic...

BLEU is bad, ChrF++ is okay, but can we do better??😃

The #AmericasNLP25 shared task on MT metrics for Indigenous languages tries to answer this question: participants will develop automatic metrics that work for Bribri, Guarani, and Nahuatl.

Details:
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...

First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistic...

#AmericasNLP25 features 3(!!!) shared tasks!🔥⬇️

1. MT for Indigenous languages — a classic!
2. Educational resources for Indigenous languages — it’s back!
3. MT metrics for Indigenous languages — our newest addition, similar to the WMT metrics ST!

Info:
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...

🔥AmericasNLP 2025🔥

#AmericasNLP25 will be co-located with @naaclmeeting.bsky.social in Albuquerque, USA on May 4th. The submission deadline is March 7th, and the call for paper is here: tinyurl.com/ANLP25

We are looking forward to your submissions and an exciting event!🌎🥳

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