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# Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages, held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 56 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Rabat, [Morocco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/morocco/) · 🗓 March 2026

[**56** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**5** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/2026/#works) · [**8** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/2026/#works)

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.56/)**Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum et al.*2 citations*
2. **[Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.8/)**Aramide Adebesin, Zainab Tairu*1 citation*
3. **[Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.9/)**Mamadou K. Keita, Adwoa Bremang, Huy Le et al.*1 citation*
4. **[Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.13/)**Vlad-Andrei Negoiță, Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea*1 citation*
5. **[Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.29/)**Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur et al.*1 citation*
6. **[Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.31/)**Zaruhi Navasardyan, Bagratuni Minsayan, Spartak Bughdaryan et al.*1 citation*
7. **[Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.14/)**Joy Olusanya*1 citation*
8. **[Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.28/)**Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero*1 citation*

## All accepted papers (56)

The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Overview of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.56/)**Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Alistair Plum et al.*2 citations*
2. **[Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.8/)**Aramide Adebesin, Zainab Tairu*1 citation*
3. **[Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.9/)**Mamadou K. Keita, Adwoa Bremang, Huy Le et al.*1 citation*
4. **[Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.13/)**Vlad-Andrei Negoiță, Mihai Masala, Traian Rebedea*1 citation*
5. **[Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.29/)**Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Ana-Maria Bucur et al.*1 citation*
6. **[Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.31/)**Zaruhi Navasardyan, Bagratuni Minsayan, Spartak Bughdaryan et al.*1 citation*
7. **[Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.14/)**Joy Olusanya*1 citation*
8. **[Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.28/)**Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero*1 citation*
9. **[A Comprehensive Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Persian Classification Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.27/)**Shakib Yazdani, Cristina España-Bonet, Eleftherios Avramidis et al.
10. **[Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of Nupe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/umar-2026-anchoring-judge-curriculum-based-adaptation/)**Umar Baba Umar, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir, Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed*our summary*
11. **[BanglaIPA: Towards Robust Text-to-IPA Transcription with Contextual Rewriting in Bengali ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.12/)**Jakir Hasan, Shrestha Datta, Md Saiful Islam et al.
12. **[BanglaLlama: LLaMA for Bangla Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.7/)**Abdullah Khan Zehady, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Naymul Islam et al.
13. **[BanglaSummEval: Reference-Free Factual Consistency Evaluation for Bangla Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.51/)**Ahmed Rafid, Rumman Adib, Fariya Ahmed et al.
14. **[Beyond Many-Shot Translation: Scaling In-Context Demonstrations For Low-Resource Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.34/)**Luis Frentzen Salim, Esteban Carlin, Alexandre Morinvil et al.
15. **[Bootstrapping Embeddings for Low Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.35/)**Merve Basoz, Andrew Horne, Mattia Opper
16. **[Competence Collapse in Code-Mixed Generation: Spectral Evidence and Mechanistic Recovery via Cross-Lingual Activation Steering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.3/)**Tanushree Ravindra Pratap Yadav
17. **[Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré Pair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouedraogo-2026-contributing-speech-speech-translation-african/)**Fayçal S. A. Ouedraogo, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando et al.*our summary*
18. **[Cross-Lingual Emotion Recognition in Balinese Text using Multilingual-LLMs under Peer-Collaborations Settings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.21/)**Putu Kussa Laksana Utama, Jilles Steeve Dibangoye, Tsegaye Misikir Tashu
19. **[Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for POS Tagging in Historical Germanic Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miani-2026-cross-lingual-cross-domain-transfer/)**Irene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwin*our summary*
20. **[Do Tokenizers Fail on Informal Hindi Expressions? Evidence from Static, Downstream, and Robustness Analyses ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.2/)**Manikandan Ravikiran, Tanmay Tiwari, Vibhu Gupta et al.
21. **[Domain-Specific Quality Estimation for Machine Translation in Low-Resource Scenarios ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.55/)**Namrata Bhalchandra Patil Gurav, Akashdeep Ranu, Archchana Sindhujan et al.
22. **[Enabling Structured Reasoning in Sindhi with Culturally Grounded Instruction Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.22/)**Mehak Mehak, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Pireh Soomro et al.
23. **[Escaping the Probability Trap: Mitigating Semantic Drift in Cantonese-Mandarin Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.41/)**Yuzhi Liang, Fangqi Chen
24. **[Evaluating Large Language Models on Lithuanian Grammatical Cases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.32/)**Urtė Jakubauskaitė, Raquel G. Alhama
25. **[Hebrew Diacritics Restoration using Visual Representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elboher-2026-hebrew-diacritics-restoration-visual-representation/)**Yair Elboher, Yuval Pinter*our summary*

[See all 56 papers in Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2026 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/2026/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (5)

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

1. [**Cross-Lingual and Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for POS Tagging in Historical Germanic Low-Resource Languages**Irene Miani, Sara Stymne, Gregory R. Darwin*2026 · 3 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miani-2026-cross-lingual-cross-domain-transfer/)
2. **[MTQE.en-he: Machine Translation Quality Estimation for English-Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosenbaum-2026-mtqe-en-he-machine-translation/) [Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/)**Andy Rosenbaum, Assaf Siani, Ilan Kernerman*2026 · 2 citations*
3. [**Hebrew Diacritics Restoration using Visual Representation**Yair Elboher, Yuval Pinter*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elboher-2026-hebrew-diacritics-restoration-visual-representation/)
4. **[Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré Pair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouedraogo-2026-contributing-speech-speech-translation-african/) [Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/)**Fayçal S. A. Ouedraogo, Maimouna Ouattara, Rodrique Kafando, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of Nupe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/umar-2026-anchoring-judge-curriculum-based-adaptation/) [Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loreslm/)**Umar Baba Umar, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir, Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed*2026 · 1 citation*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [Biblical Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Modern Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/modern-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Gregory R. Darwin**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-r-darwin/) · [🧑‍🔬**Irene Miani**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/irene-miani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sara Stymne**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-stymne/) · [🧑‍🔬**Andy Rosenbaum**1 work here · 2 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-rosenbaum/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tegawende Bissyande**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yuval Pinter**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-pinter/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Luxembourg** Luxembourg · Luxembourg 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/)

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