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# AmericasNLP 2021 — accepted papers

AmericasNLP 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), held in Online, June 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 30 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Online · 🗓 June 2021

[**30** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2021/#works) · [**122** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2021/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mager-2021-findings-americasnlp-2021-shared-task/)**Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi et al.*45 citations · our summary*
2. **[IndT5: A Text-to-Text Transformer for 10 Indigenous Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.30/)**El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed et al.*26 citations*
3. **[The Helsinki submission to the AmericasNLP shared task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.29/)**Raúl Vázquez, Yves Scherrer, Sami Virpioja et al.*20 citations*
4. **[Low-Resource Machine Translation Using Cross-Lingual Language Model Pretraining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.26/)**Francis Zheng, Machel Reid, Edison Marrese-Taylor et al.*19 citations*
5. **[The REPU CS' Spanish–Quechua Submission to the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.27/)**Oscar Moreno*12 citations*
6. **[A corpus of K'iche' annotated for morphosyntactic structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.2/)**Francis Tyers, Robert Henderson*11 citations*
7. **[Ayuuk-Spanish Neural Machine Translator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.19/)**Delfino Zacarías Márquez, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz*8 citations*
8. **[Highland Puebla Nahuatl Speech Translation Corpus for Endangered Language Documentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.7/)**Jiatong Shi, Jonathan D. Amith, Xuankai Chang et al.*8 citations*
9. **[Morphological Segmentation for Seneca ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.10/)**Zoey Liu, Robert Jimerson, Emily Prud'hommeaux*8 citations*
10. **[NRC-CNRC Machine Translation Systems for the 2021 AmericasNLP Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.25/)**Rebecca Knowles, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin et al.*7 citations*

## All accepted papers (30)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mager-2021-findings-americasnlp-2021-shared-task/)**Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi et al.*45 citations · our summary*
2. **[IndT5: A Text-to-Text Transformer for 10 Indigenous Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.30/)**El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed et al.*26 citations*
3. **[The Helsinki submission to the AmericasNLP shared task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.29/)**Raúl Vázquez, Yves Scherrer, Sami Virpioja et al.*20 citations*
4. **[Low-Resource Machine Translation Using Cross-Lingual Language Model Pretraining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.26/)**Francis Zheng, Machel Reid, Edison Marrese-Taylor et al.*19 citations*
5. **[The REPU CS' Spanish–Quechua Submission to the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.27/)**Oscar Moreno*12 citations*
6. **[A corpus of K'iche' annotated for morphosyntactic structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.2/)**Francis Tyers, Robert Henderson*11 citations*
7. **[Ayuuk-Spanish Neural Machine Translator ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.19/)**Delfino Zacarías Márquez, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz*8 citations*
8. **[Highland Puebla Nahuatl Speech Translation Corpus for Endangered Language Documentation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.7/)**Jiatong Shi, Jonathan D. Amith, Xuankai Chang et al.*8 citations*
9. **[Morphological Segmentation for Seneca ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.10/)**Zoey Liu, Robert Jimerson, Emily Prud'hommeaux*8 citations*
10. **[NRC-CNRC Machine Translation Systems for the 2021 AmericasNLP Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.25/)**Rebecca Knowles, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin et al.*7 citations*
11. **[Automatic Interlinear Glossing for Otomi language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.5/)**Diego Barriga Martínez, Victor Mijangos, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques*6 citations*
12. **[Open Machine Translation for Low Resource South American Languages (AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task Contribution) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.24/)**Shantipriya Parida, Subhadarshi Panda, Amulya Dash et al.*6 citations*
13. **[Peru is Multilingual, Its Machine Translation Should Be Too? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.22/)**Arturo Oncevay*6 citations*
14. **[Experiments on a Guarani Corpus of News and Social Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.16/)**Santiago Góngora, Nicolás Giossa, Luis Chiruzzo*5 citations*
15. **[Moses and the Character-Based Random Babbling Baseline: CoAStaL at AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.28/)**Marcel Bollmann, Rahul Aralikatte, Héctor Murrieta Bello et al.*5 citations*
16. **[Apurinã Universal Dependencies Treebank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.4/)**Jack Rueter, Marília Fernanda Pereira de Freitas, Sidney Da Silva Facundes et al.*4 citations*
17. **[Explicit Tone Transcription Improves ASR Performance in Extremely Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study in Bribri ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.20/)**Rolando Coto-Solano*4 citations*
18. **[A finite-state morphological analyser for Paraguayan Guaraní ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.9/)**Anastasia Kuznetsova, Francis Tyers*3 citations*
19. **[End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: Its Impact on the Workflowin Documenting Yoloxóchitl Mixtec ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.8/)**Jonathan D. Amith, Jiatong Shi, Rey Castillo García*3 citations*
20. **[Expanding Universal Dependencies for Polysynthetic Languages: A Case of St. Lawrence Island Yupik ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.14/)**Hyunji Hayley Park, Lane Schwartz, Francis Tyers*3 citations*
21. **[The More Detail, the Better? – Investigating the Effects of Semantic Ontology Specificity on Vector Semantic Classification with a Plains Cree / nêhiyawêwin Dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.15/)**Daniel Dacanay, Atticus Harrigan, Arok Wolvengrey et al.*3 citations*
22. **[Towards a First Automatic Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Inuinnaqtun ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.17/)**Ngoc Tan Le, Fatiha Sadat*3 citations*
23. **[Restoring the Sister: Reconstructing a Lexicon from Sister Languages using Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.13/)**Remo Nitschke*2 citations*
24. **[Towards a morphological transducer and orthography converter for Western Tlacolula Valley Zapotec ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.21/)**Jonathan Washington, Felipe Lopez, Brook Lillehaugen*2 citations*
25. **[Leveraging English Word Embeddings for Semi-Automatic Semantic Classification in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/harrigan-2021-leveraging-english-word-embeddings-semi/)**Atticus Harrigan, Antti Arppe*1 citation · our summary*

[See all 30 papers in AmericasNLP 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (2)

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

1. **[Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mager-2021-findings-americasnlp-2021-shared-task/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi, et al.*2021 · 118 citations*
2. **[Leveraging English Word Embeddings for Semi-Automatic Semantic Classification in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/harrigan-2021-leveraging-english-word-embeddings-semi/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Atticus Harrigan, Antti Arppe*2021 · 4 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Abteen Ebrahimi**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abteen-ebrahimi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Angela Fan**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Annette Rios**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annette-rios/) · [🧑‍🔬**Arturo Oncevay**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arturo-oncevay/) · [🧑‍🔬**Gustavo Giménez-Lugo**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gustavo-gimenez-lugo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-vladimir-meza-ruiz/) · [🧑‍🔬**John Ortega**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-ortega/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luis Chiruzzo**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luis-chiruzzo/) · [🧑‍🔬**Manuel Mager**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manuel-mager/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ricardo Ramos**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ricardo-ramos/) · [🧑‍🔬**Rolando Coto-Solano**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rolando-coto-solano/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques**1 work here · 118 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ximena-gutierrez-vasques/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) · [🎓**Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná** Curitiba · Brazil 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-tecnologica-federal-do-parana/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🎓**Universidad de la República de Uruguay** Montevideo · Uruguay 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-de-la-republica-de-uruguay/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**University of Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-zurich/) · [🎓**Universidad Tecnologica de Tlaxcala** Huamantla · Mexico 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-tecnologica-de-tlaxcala/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México** Mexico City · Mexico 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidad-nacional-autonoma-de-mexico/)

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

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