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# LoResMT 2026 — accepted papers

LoResMT 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT), held in Rabat, Morocco, March 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 24 papers of it; our library holds 15 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

[**24** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**15** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/2026/#works) · [**8** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/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. **[Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-are-small-language-models-silver/)**Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz et al.*1 citation · our summary*
2. **[Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tahir-2026-building-evaluating-high-quality-parallel/)**Munief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams et al.*1 citation · our summary*
3. **[Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/signoroni-2026-can-llms-translate-italy-s/)**Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý*1 citation · our summary*
4. **[Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/setiawan-2026-context-volume-drives-performance-tackling/)**David Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau*1 citation · our summary*
5. **[Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.10/)**Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Christan Grant et al.*1 citation*
6. **[No One-Size-Fits-All: Building Systems For Translation to Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Chuvash Using Synthetic And Original Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.17/)**Dmitry Karpov*1 citation*
7. **[Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/macayan-2026-tao-filipino-neural-machine-translation/)**Adrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla et al.*1 citation · our summary*

## All accepted papers (24)

The most cited first; 15 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-are-small-language-models-silver/)**Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz et al.*1 citation · our summary*
2. **[Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tahir-2026-building-evaluating-high-quality-parallel/)**Munief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams et al.*1 citation · our summary*
3. **[Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/signoroni-2026-can-llms-translate-italy-s/)**Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý*1 citation · our summary*
4. **[Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/setiawan-2026-context-volume-drives-performance-tackling/)**David Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau*1 citation · our summary*
5. **[Improving Indigenous Language Machine Translation with Synthetic Data and Language-Specific Preprocessing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.10/)**Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Christan Grant et al.*1 citation*
6. **[No One-Size-Fits-All: Building Systems For Translation to Bashkir, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar and Chuvash Using Synthetic And Original Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.17/)**Dmitry Karpov*1 citation*
7. **[Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/macayan-2026-tao-filipino-neural-machine-translation/)**Adrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla et al.*1 citation · our summary*
8. **[A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models for Russian-Kazakh Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shanshin-2026-comparative-evaluation-open-source-models/)**Gleb Shanshin*our summary*
9. **[A Fine-Grained Linguistic Evaluation of Low-Resource Luxembourgish–English MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rehlinger-2026-fine-grained-linguistic-evaluation-low/)**Nils Rehlinger*our summary*
10. **[Adapting Multilingual NMT to Language Isolates: The Role of Proxy Language Selection and Dialect Handling for Nivkh ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.11/)**Eleonora Izmailova, Alexey Sorokin, Pavel Grashchenkov
11. **[Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shejole-2026-assessing-improving-punctuation-robustness-english/)**Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya*our summary*
12. **[Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2026-balancing-fluency-adherence-hybrid-fallback/)**Kurt Abela, Marc Tanti, Claudia Borg*our summary*
13. **[CTC Regularization for Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.15/)**Zachary Hopton, Rico Sennrich
14. **[Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramasethu-2026-can-linguistically-related-languages-guide/)**Aishwarya Ramasethu, Rohin Garg, Niyathi Allu et al.*our summary*
15. **[Comparing LLM-Based Translation Approaches for Extremely Low-Resource Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.4/)**Jared Coleman, Ruben Rosales, Kira Toal et al.
16. **[Data-Centric Approach at the LoResMT 2026 Turkic Translation Challenge: Russian-Kyrgyz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/novokshanov-2026-data-centric-approach-loresmt-2026/)**Dmitry Novokshanov*our summary*
17. **[DevLake at LoResMT 2026: The Impact of Pre-training and Model Scale on Russian-Bashkir Low-Resource Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tyurin-2026-devlake-loresmt-2026-impact-pre/)**Vyacheslav Tyurin*our summary*
18. **[Ensemble Methods for Low-Resource Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation: When Diverse Models Beat Better Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/metinov-2026-ensemble-methods-low-resource-russian/)**Adilet Metinov*our summary*
19. **[LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System Description](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panov-2026-loresmt-2026-shared-task-system/)**Vladimir Panov*our summary*
20. **[Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages: English-Tatar ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.21/)**Alexander Dikov
21. **[Navigating Data Scarcity in Low-Resource English-Tatar Translation using LLM Fine-Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.16/)**Ahmed Khaled Khamis
22. **[Script Correction and Synthetic Pivoting: Adapting Tencent HY-MT for Low-Resource Turkic Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maxim-2026-script-correction-synthetic-pivoting-adapting/)**Bolgov Maxim*our summary*
23. **[Semi-Automatic construction of a Quechua-Spanish dictionary ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.9/)**Maximiliano Duran, Max Silberztein
24. **[Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies for Multilingual Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.loresmt-1.3/)**Kenji Imamura, Masao Utiyama

## Papers with our summary in our library (15)

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

1. **[Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-are-small-language-models-silver/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Yewei Song, Lujun Li, Cedric Lothritz, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
2. [**Context Volume Drives Performance: Tackling Domain Shift in Extremely Low-Resource Translation via RAG**David Samuel Setiawan, Raphaël Merx, Jey Han Lau*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/setiawan-2026-context-volume-drives-performance-tackling/)
3. **[Tao–Filipino Neural Machine Translation: Strategies for Ultra–Low-Resource Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/macayan-2026-tao-filipino-neural-machine-translation/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Adrian Denzel Macayan, Luis Andrew Sunga Madridijo, Ellexandrei Esponilla, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
4. **[Can Linguistically Related Languages Guide LLM Translation in Low-Resource Settings?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramasethu-2026-can-linguistically-related-languages-guide/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Aishwarya Ramasethu, Rohin Garg, Niyathi Allu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
5. **[Can LLMs Translate Italy's Language Varieties?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/signoroni-2026-can-llms-translate-italy-s/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychlý*2026 · 1 citation*
6. **[Building and Evaluating a High Quality Parallel Corpus for English Urdu Low Resource Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tahir-2026-building-evaluating-high-quality-parallel/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Munief Hassan Tahir, Hunain Azam, Sana Shams, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
7. **[Balancing Fluency and Adherence: Hybrid Fallback Term Injection in Low-Resource Terminology Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abela-2026-balancing-fluency-adherence-hybrid-fallback/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Kurt Abela, Marc Tanti, Claudia Borg*2026*
8. **[Script Correction and Synthetic Pivoting: Adapting Tencent HY-MT for Low-Resource Turkic Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maxim-2026-script-correction-synthetic-pivoting-adapting/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Bolgov Maxim*2026*
9. **[Ensemble Methods for Low-Resource Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation: When Diverse Models Beat Better Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/metinov-2026-ensemble-methods-low-resource-russian/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Adilet Metinov*2026*
10. **[Data-Centric Approach at the LoResMT 2026 Turkic Translation Challenge: Russian-Kyrgyz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/novokshanov-2026-data-centric-approach-loresmt-2026/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Dmitry Novokshanov*2026*
11. **[LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System Description](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panov-2026-loresmt-2026-shared-task-system/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Vladimir Panov*2026*
12. **[A Fine-Grained Linguistic Evaluation of Low-Resource Luxembourgish–English MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rehlinger-2026-fine-grained-linguistic-evaluation-low/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Nils Rehlinger*2026*
13. **[A Comparative Evaluation of Open-Source Models for Russian-Kazakh Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shanshin-2026-comparative-evaluation-open-source-models/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Gleb Shanshin*2026*
14. **[Assessing and Improving Punctuation Robustness in English-Marathi Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shejole-2026-assessing-improving-punctuation-robustness-english/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Kaustubh Shivshankar Shejole, Sourabh Deoghare, Pushpak Bhattacharyya*2026*
15. **[DevLake at LoResMT 2026: The Impact of Pre-training and Model Scale on Russian-Bashkir Low-Resource Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tyurin-2026-devlake-loresmt-2026-impact-pre/) [Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/loresmt/)**Vyacheslav Tyurin*2026*

## Top topics

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

[Machine translation (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages (12)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [English (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Biblical Hebrew (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (15)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (15)](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.

[🧑‍🔬**Cedric Lothritz**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cedric-lothritz/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jacques Klein**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacques-klein/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lujun Li**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lujun-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Radu State**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-state/) · [🧑‍🔬**Saad Ezzini**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tegawende Bissyande**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/) · [🧑‍🔬**Yewei Song**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yewei-song/) · [🧑‍🔬**Edoardo Signoroni**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edoardo-signoroni/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jey Han Lau**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jey-han-lau/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pavel Rychlý**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-rychly/) · [🧑‍🔬**Raphaël Merx**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-merx/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sana Shams**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sana-shams/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Luxembourg** Luxembourg · Luxembourg 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/) · [🎓**King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals** Dhahran · Saudi Arabia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-fahd-university-of-petroleum-and-minerals/) · [🎓**University of Engineering and Technology Lahore** Lahore · Pakistan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-engineering-and-technology-lahore/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Bombay** Mumbai · India 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-bombay/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🎓**ITMO University** St Petersburg · Russia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/itmo-university/) · [🎓**Masaryk University** Brno · Czechia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/masaryk-university/) · [🔬**Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology** Belvaux · Luxembourg 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/luxembourg-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**De La Salle University** Manila · Philippines 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/de-la-salle-university/)

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

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