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# AmericasNLP 2026 — accepted papers

AmericasNLP 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP), held in San Diego, California, USA, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 27 papers of it; our library holds 9 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) · 🗓 July 2026

[**27** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**9** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2026/#works) · [**6** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2026/#works)

## All accepted papers (27)

The most cited first; 9 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[A Systematic Comparison of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: Evidence from Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stackhouse-2026-systematic-comparison-parameter-efficient-fine/)**Drew Stackhouse, Justin Debenedetto*3 citations · our summary*
2. **[6fanle Submission to the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Wixarika Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-6fanle-submission-americasnlp-2026-shared/)**Ji Wang, Hanqi Yang*our summary*
3. **[A data-centric approach to performance improvement in under-resourced ASR: The case of Dënë Sųłıné ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.9/)**Olga Kriukova, Olga Lovick, Antti Arppe
4. **[Bridging Digital Tools for Linguistic Documentation and Revitalization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.3/)**Christopher Haberland, Carly Crowther, Jingnong Qu et al.
5. **[Bringing Mapudungun into the Modern MT Ecosystem: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for NLLB-200 Fine-Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thompson-2026-bringing-mapudungun-into-modern-mt/)**Isaac Thompson, Brandon Rogers, Eric Ringger*our summary*
6. **[Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.13/)**Elwin Huaman, Adrian Gamarra Lafuente, Johanna Cordova et al.
7. **[Corpora duplication for NLP in low-resource languages: A case study of Nahuatl ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.11/)**Juan Jose Guzman Landa, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Luis Moreno Jimenez et al.
8. **[Culturally Grounded Image Captioning in Indigenous Languages with Vision-Language Models: Cascaded and Single-Stage Approaches ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.23/)**Mirelle Bueno, Sushil Garg
9. **[Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Guaraní with Multimodal Prompting: IUHoosiers at AmericasNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-culturally-aware-image-captioning-guarani/)**Wenchen Shi, Phakphum Artkaew, Luke Gessler*our summary*
10. **[Deer, Deities, and Dancing: Culturally Biased LLM Hallucination in Low-Resource Wixárika Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.7/)**Henry Gagnier, Ashwin Kirubakaran
11. **[Evaluating Frontier LLM Translation Capability for Lakota](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/robertson-2026-evaluating-frontier-llm-translation-capability/)**Lance Robertson*our summary*
12. **[Findings of the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Cultural Image Captioning for Indigenous Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.27/)**Minh Duc Bui, David Guzmán, Abteen Ebrahimi et al.
13. **[From Machine Translation to Image Captioning: Training Vision-Language Models for Indigenous Languages of the Americas ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.20/)**Luis Lara, Param Raval
14. **[IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mainzinger-2026-indigieval-evaluating-llms-north-american/)**Julia Mainzinger, Jacqueline Brixey*our summary*
15. **[Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2026-linguistic-feature-tagging-automatic-classification/)**Claire Benét Post, Alexis Palmer*our summary*
16. **[Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vasselli-2026-nearest-neighbor-retrieval-indigenous-image/)**Justin Vasselli, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Shintaro Ozaki et al.*our summary*
17. **[Neural Text-to-Speech for Myaamia: Speech Synthesis for an Indigenous Algonquian Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.1/)**Anita Baral, John Femiani, Hunter Lockwood et al.
18. **[On the Robustness of Morphosyntactic Transformation with Large Language Models: The Case of Quechua Collao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pocco-2026-robustness-morphosyntactic-transformation-large-language/)**Pool Pocco, Arturo Oncevay*our summary*
19. **[QomL'aqtaqa: A Qom–Spanish Parallel Corpus for Natural Language Processing with Machine Translation Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.17/)**Viviana Cotik, Aleksei Korablev, Paola Cúneo et al.
20. **[RAN: Resource Abundance Notation for Languages in NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.15/)**Jared Coleman, Tainã Coleman, Bhaskar Krishnmachari
21. **[Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning: Gators submission for AmericasNLP 2026 shared task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.19/)**Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Dzmitry Kasinets et al.
22. **[Schema-Constrained Image Captioning for Five Low-Resource Indigenous Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.24/)**Diego Cuadros, Nicholas Leeds, Amanda Avalos et al.
23. **[The Power of Simplicity: N-Grams and Transformers in Nahuatl Language Identification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.14/)**Luis Armando Mercado-Campos, Robert Pugh, Alexis Palmer
24. **[Toward a Coarse-Labeled Spoken Language Identification Dataset for Central Alaskan Yup'ik and Samoan from US Broadcast Archives ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.18/)**Yangyang Chen, Kyeongmin Rim, James Pustejovsky
25. **[Towards a Community-accessible Cahuilla corpus: Developing HTR for J.P. Harrington's handwritten fieldnotes on Mountain Cahuilla ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.10/)**Ray Huaute, Jacqueline Brixey

[See all 27 papers in AmericasNLP 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/2026/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (9)

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

1. **[A Systematic Comparison of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: Evidence from Indigenous Languages of the Americas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stackhouse-2026-systematic-comparison-parameter-efficient-fine/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Drew Stackhouse, Justin Debenedetto*2026 · 3 citations*
2. **[Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Guaraní with Multimodal Prompting: IUHoosiers at AmericasNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-culturally-aware-image-captioning-guarani/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Wenchen Shi, Phakphum Artkaew, Luke Gessler*2026 · 1 citation*
3. **[Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vasselli-2026-nearest-neighbor-retrieval-indigenous-image/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Justin Vasselli, Arturo Martínez Peguero, Shintaro Ozaki, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[6fanle Submission to the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Wixarika Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-6fanle-submission-americasnlp-2026-shared/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Ji Wang, Hanqi Yang*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mainzinger-2026-indigieval-evaluating-llms-north-american/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Julia Mainzinger, Jacqueline Brixey*2026*
6. **[On the Robustness of Morphosyntactic Transformation with Large Language Models: The Case of Quechua Collao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pocco-2026-robustness-morphosyntactic-transformation-large-language/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Pool Pocco, Arturo Oncevay*2026*
7. **[Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/post-2026-linguistic-feature-tagging-automatic-classification/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Claire Benét Post, Alexis Palmer*2026*
8. **[Evaluating Frontier LLM Translation Capability for Lakota](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/robertson-2026-evaluating-frontier-llm-translation-capability/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Lance Robertson*2026*
9. **[Bringing Mapudungun into the Modern MT Ecosystem: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for NLLB-200 Fine-Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thompson-2026-bringing-mapudungun-into-modern-mt/) [Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/americasnlp/)**Isaac Thompson, Brandon Rogers, Eric Ringger*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Low-resource languages (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Vision & language (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Machine translation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Justin Vasselli**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-vasselli/) · [🧑‍🔬**Luke Gessler**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-gessler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Taro Watanabe**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taro-watanabe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alexis Palmer**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexis-palmer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Arturo Oncevay**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arturo-oncevay/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eric Ringger**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-ringger/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Brigham Young University** Provo · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brigham-young-university/) · [🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Madison** Madison · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**Charles Darwin University** Darwin · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-darwin-university/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**Indiana University Bloomington** Bloomington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university-bloomington/) · [🎓**Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú** Lima · Peru 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pontificia-universidad-catolica-del-peru/)

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

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