Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP)

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA text conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 americasnlp-2026-6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.0/ Neural Text-to-Speech for Myaamia: Speech Synthesis for an Indigenous Algonquian Language Anita Baral author John Femiani author Hunter Lockwood author Daniela Inclezan author Balaram Bhandari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 baral-etal-2026-neural https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.1/ 2026-07 1 10 Evaluating Frontier LLM Translation Capability for Lakota Lance Robertson author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 robertson-2026-evaluating https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.2/ 2026-07 11 21 Bridging Digital Tools for Linguistic Documentation and Revitalization Christopher Haberland author Carly Crowther author Jingnong Qu author Anuk Centellas author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 haberland-etal-2026-bridging https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.3/ 2026-07 22 32 A Systematic Comparison of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: Evidence from Indigenous Languages of the Americas Drew Stackhouse author Justin Debenedetto author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 stackhouse-debenedetto-2026-systematic https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.4/ 2026-07 33 45 Linguistic Feature Tagging for Automatic Classification of 27 Closely-Related Quechua Varieties Claire Post author Alexis Palmer author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 post-palmer-2026-linguistic https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.5/ 2026-07 46 63 What Resources Matter for Interlinear Glossing? Using LLMs and RAG for the Low-Resource Mapudungun Language Anaís Almendra author Arianna Bisazza author Claudio Gutierrez author Felipe Hasler author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 almendra-etal-2026-resources https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.6/ 2026-07 64 73 Deer, Deities, and Dancing: Culturally Biased LLM Hallucination in Low-Resource Wixárika Translation Henry Gagnier author Ashwin Kirubakaran author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 gagnier-kirubakaran-2026-deer https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.7/ 2026-07 74 81 IndigiEval: Evaluating LLMs in North American Indigenous Languages Julia Mainzinger author Jacqueline Brixey author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 mainzinger-brixey-2026-indigieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.8/ 2026-07 82 94 A data-centric approach to performance improvement in under-resourced ASR: The case of Dënë Sųłıné Olga Kriukova author Olga Lovick author Antti Arppe author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 kriukova-etal-2026-data https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.9/ 2026-07 95 106 Towards a Community-accessible Cahuilla corpus: Developing HTR for J.P. Harrington’s handwritten fieldnotes on Mountain Cahuilla Ray Huaute author Jacqueline Brixey author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 huaute-brixey-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.10/ 2026-07 107 114 Corpora duplication for NLP in low-resource languages: A case study of Nahuatl Juan Jose Guzman Landa author Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno author Luis Moreno Jimenez author Elvys Linhares Pontes author Miguel Figueroa-Saavedra author Graham Ranger author Martha Lorena Avendaño Garrido author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 guzman-landa-etal-2026-corpora https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.11/ 2026-07 115 127 On the Robustness of Morphosyntactic Transformation with Large Language Models: The Case of Quechua Collao Pool Pocco author Arturo Oncevay author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 pocco-oncevay-2026-robustness https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.12/ 2026-07 128 146 Building Community-Centred NLP Resources for Puno Quechua Elwin Huaman author Adrian Gamarra Lafuente author Johanna Cordova author Anna Korhonen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 huaman-etal-2026-building https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.13/ 2026-07 147 152 The Power of Simplicity: N-Grams and Transformers in Nahuatl Language Identification Luis Mercado Campos author Robert Pugh author Alexis Palmer author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 mercado-campos-etal-2026-power https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.14/ 2026-07 153 167 RAN: Resource Abundance Notation for Languages in NLP Jared Coleman author Tainã Coleman author Bhaskar Krishnmachari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 coleman-etal-2026-ran https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.15/ 2026-07 168 172 Bringing Mapudungun into the Modern MT Ecosystem: Morphology-Aware Tokenization for NLLB-200 Fine-Tuning Isaac Thompson author Brandon Rogers author Eric Ringger author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 thompson-etal-2026-bringing https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.16/ 2026-07 173 185 QomL’aqtaqa: A Qom–Spanish Parallel Corpus for Natural Language Processing with Machine Translation Evaluation Viviana Cotik author Aleksei Korablev author Paola Cúneo author Pablo Laciana author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 cotik-etal-2026-qomlaqtaqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.17/ 2026-07 186 202 Toward a Coarse-Labeled Spoken Language Identification Dataset for Central Alaskan Yup’ik and Samoan from US Broadcast Archives Yangyang Chen author Kyeongmin Rim author James Pustejovsky author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 chen-etal-2026-toward https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.18/ 2026-07 203 211 Retrieval-Augmented Long-Context Translation for Cultural Image Captioning: Gators submission for AmericasNLP 2026 shared task Aashish Dhawan author Christopher Driggers-Ellis author Dzmitry Kasinets author Christan Grant author Zhe Wang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 dhawan-etal-2026-retrieval https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.19/ 2026-07 212 223 From Machine Translation to Image Captioning: Training Vision-Language Models for Indigenous Languages of the Americas Luis Lara author Param Raval author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 lara-raval-2026-machine https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.20/ 2026-07 224 235 Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Guaraní with Multimodal Prompting: IUHoosiers at AmericasNLP 2026 Wenchen Shi author Phakphum Artkaew author Luke Gessler author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 shi-etal-2026-culturally https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.21/ 2026-07 236 242 6fanle Submission to the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Wixarika Image Captioning Ji Wang author Hanqi Yang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 wang-yang-2026-6fanle https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.22/ 2026-07 243 247 Culturally Grounded Image Captioning in Indigenous Languages with Vision-Language Models: Cascaded and Single-Stage Approaches Mirelle Bueno author Sushil Garg author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 bueno-garg-2026-culturally https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.23/ 2026-07 248 256 Schema-Constrained Image Captioning for Five Low-Resource Indigenous Languages Diego Cuadros author Nicholas Leeds author Amanda Avalos author Azul Alpizar-Velazquez author Jared Coleman author Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani author Bhaskar Krishnamachari author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 cuadros-etal-2026-schema https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.24/ 2026-07 257 263 USP at AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task: Culturally-Aware Image Captioning for Indigenous Languages via Vision-Language Models and Fine-Tuned Neural Machine Translation Rafael Fernandes author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 fernandes-2026-usp https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.25/ 2026-07 264 271 Nearest-Neighbor Retrieval for Indigenous Image Captioning Justin Vasselli author Arturo Martínez Peguero author Shintaro Ozaki author Frederikus Hudi author Haruki Sakajo author Taro Watanabe author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 vasselli-etal-2026-nearest https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.26/ 2026-07 272 278 Findings of the AmericasNLP 2026 Shared Task on Cultural Image Captioning for Indigenous Languages Minh Duc Bui author David Guzmán author Abteen Ebrahimi author Franklin Morales author Marvin Agüero-Torales author Raquel Insfrán author Cecilia González author Ramón Araujo author Luca Cernuzzi author Carlos Raul Noh Chi author Carlos Eduardo Tec Cahun author Sindi Estrella Poot Cohuo author Daniel Ricardo Benítez Chi author Santos Natanael Palomo Arévalo author Jessica Elizabeth Canul Canche author Deysi Aracely Poot Poot author Wendy Marleny Dzib Dzib author Eduardo José Ake Pool author Reynaldo Alexander Couoh Martin author Silvia Fernandez Sabido author Luis Samuel Santiago Melchor author Sotero Silverio author Robert Pugh author Raúl Vázquez author John E Ortega author Arturo Oncevay author Rubén Manrique author Luis Chiruzzo author Rolando Coto-Solano author Elisabeth Mager author Shruti Rijhwani author David Ifeoluwa Adelani author Manuel Mager author Katharina von der Wense author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) Manuel Mager editor Abteen Ebrahimi editor Minh Duc Bui editor Robert Pugh editor Arturo Oncevay editor Luis Chiruzzo editor Rolando Coto Solano editor Shruti Rijhwani editor Katharina Von Der Wense editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, USA conference publication 979-8-89176-415-6 bui-etal-2026-findings https://aclanthology.org/2026.americasnlp-6.27/ 2026-07 279 295