@inproceedings{umar-etal-2026-anchoring, title = "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", author = "Umar, Umar Baba and Bashir, Sulaimon Adebayo and Mohammed, Abdulmalik Danlami", editor = "Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Plum, Alistair and Rayson, Paul and Mitkov, Ruslan and Gaber, Mohamed and Premasiri, Damith and Tan, Fiona Anting and Uyangodage, Lasitha", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages ({L}o{R}es{LM} 2026)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.19/", pages = "200--211", ISBN = "979-8-89176-377-7" }