Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026)

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor 2026-03 Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco text conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 loreslm-2026-1 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.0 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.0/ NE-BERT: A Multilingual Language Model for Nine Northeast Indian Languages Badal Nyalang author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 nyalang-2026-ne 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.1/ 2026-03 1 12 Do Tokenizers Fail on Informal Hindi Expressions? Evidence from Static, Downstream, and Robustness Analyses Manikandan Ravikiran author Tanmay Tiwari author Vibhu Gupta author Rakesh Prakash author Rohit Saluja author Shayan Mohanty author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 ravikiran-etal-2026-tokenizers 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.2/ 2026-03 13 28 Competence Collapse in Code-Mixed Generation: Spectral Evidence and Mechanistic Recovery via Cross-Lingual Activation Steering Tanushree Ravindra Pratap Yadav author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 yadav-2026-competence 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.3/ 2026-03 29 40 When Multilingual Evaluation Assumptions Fail: Tokenization Effects Across Scripts Manodyna K H author Luc De Nardi author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 h-de-nardi-2026-multilingual 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.4/ 2026-03 41 49 Making Large Language Models Speak Tulu: Structured Prompting for an Extremely Low-Resource Language Prathamesh Devadiga author Paras Chopra author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 devadiga-chopra-2026-making 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.5/ 2026-03 50 61 To make someone do something: mining alert-style directives in Bulgarian social media for low-resource language modelling Ruslana Margova author Stanislav Penkov author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 margova-penkov-2026-make 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.6/ 2026-03 62 72 BanglaLlama: LLaMA for Bangla Language Abdullah Khan Zehady author Shubhashis Roy Dipta author Naymul Islam author Safi Al Mamun author Santu Karmaker author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 zehady-etal-2026-banglallama 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.7/ 2026-03 73 89 Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medication Question Answering on Nigerian Drug Labels in Yorùbá Aramide Adebesin author Zainab Tairu author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 adebesin-tairu-2026-evaluating 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.8/ 2026-03 90 97 Grammatical Error Correction for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Zarma Mamadou K Keita author Adwoa Bremang author Huy Le author Dennis Owusu author Marcos Zampieri author Christopher Homan author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 keita-etal-2026-grammatical 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.9/ 2026-03 98 109 Quantifying Cross-Lingual Interference: Algorithmic Standardization of Kamtapuri in Large Language Models Roumak Das author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 das-2026-quantifying 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.10/ 2026-03 110 113 SinhaLegal: A Benchmark Corpus for Information Extraction and Analysis in Sinhala Legislative Texts Minduli Lasandi author Nevidu Jayatilleke author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 lasandi-jayatilleke-2026-sinhalegal 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.11/ 2026-03 114 131 BanglaIPA: Towards Robust Text-to-IPA Transcription with Contextual Rewriting in Bengali Jakir Hasan author Shrestha Datta author Md Saiful Islam author Shubhashis Roy Dipta author Ameya Debnath author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 hasan-etal-2026-banglaipa 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.12/ 2026-03 132 139 Improving Romanian LLM Pretraining Data using Diversity and Quality Filtering Vlad-Andrei Negoiță author Mihai Masala author Traian Rebedea author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 negoita-etal-2026-improving 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.13/ 2026-03 140 148 Tone in Yoruba ASR: Evaluating the Impact of Tone Recognition on Transformer-Based ASR Models Joy Olusanya author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 olusanya-2026-tone 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.14/ 2026-03 149 156 LLM-as-a-Judge for Low-Resource Languages: Adapting Ragas and Comparative Ranking for Romanian Claudiu Creanga author Liviu P Dinu author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 creanga-dinu-2026-llm 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.15/ 2026-03 157 167 QARI: Neural Architecture for Urdu Extractive Machine Reading Comprehension Samreen Kazi author Shakeel Ahmed Khoja author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 kazi-khoja-2026-qari 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.16/ 2026-03 168 177 When LLMs Annotate: Reliability Challenges in Low-Resource NLI Solmaz Panahi author John Kelleher author Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 panahi-etal-2026-llms 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.17/ 2026-03 178 188 Qomhrá: A Bilingual Irish and English Large Language Model Joseph McInerney author Khanh-Tung Tran author Liam Lonergan author Neasa Ní Chiaráin author Ailbhe Ni Chasaide author Barry Devereux author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 mcinerney-etal-2026-qomhra 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.18/ 2026-03 189 199 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 Umar Baba Umar author Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir author Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 umar-etal-2026-anchoring 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.19/ 2026-03 200 211 TeluguEval: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Capabilities in Telugu Revanth Kumar Gundam author Radhika Mamidi author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 gundam-mamidi-2026-telugueval 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.20/ 2026-03 212 224 Cross-Lingual Emotion Recognition in Balinese Text using Multilingual-LLMs under Peer-Collaborations Settings Putu Kussa Laksana Utama author Jilles Steeve Dibangoye author Tsegaye Misikir Tashu author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 utama-etal-2026-cross 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.21/ 2026-03 225 238 Enabling Structured Reasoning in Sindhi with Culturally Grounded Instruction Tuning Mehak Mehak author Kamyar Zeinalipour author Pireh Soomro author Cristiano Chesi author Marco Gori author Marco Maggini author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 mehak-etal-2026-enabling 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.22/ 2026-03 239 258 Targeted Syntactic Evaluation of Language Models on Georgian Case Alignment Daniel Gallagher author Gerhard Heyer author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 gallagher-heyer-2026-targeted 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.23 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.23/ 2026-03 259 270 “So, How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate on Low-Resource Languages?” A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis Kushal Trivedi author Murtuza Shaikh author Sriyansh Sharma author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 trivedi-etal-2026-much 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.24 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.24/ 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Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 lopez-otal-gracia-2026-language 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.26/ 2026-03 297 310 A Comprehensive Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Persian Classification Tasks Shakib Yazdani author Cristina España-Bonet author Eleftherios Avramidis author Yasser Hamidullah author Josef Van Genabith author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 yazdani-etal-2026-comprehensive 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.27/ 2026-03 311 323 Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac Chahan Vidal-Gorène author Bastien Kindt author Florian Cafiero author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 vidal-gorene-etal-2026-resourced 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.28 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.28/ 2026-03 324 334 Large Language Models for Mental Health: A Multilingual Evaluation Nishat Raihan author Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo author Ana-Maria Bucur author Stevie Chancellor author Marcos Zampieri author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 raihan-etal-2026-large 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.29 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.29/ 2026-03 335 346 Serbian SuperGLUE: Towards an Evaluation Benchmark for South Slavic Language Models Mitar Perovic author Teodora Mihajlov author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 perovic-mihajlov-2026-serbian 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.30 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.30/ 2026-03 347 361 Less is More: Adapting Text Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages with Small Scale Noisy Synthetic Data Zaruhi Navasardyan author Bagratuni Minsayan author Spartak Bughdaryan author Hrant Davtyan author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 navasardyan-etal-2026-less 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.31 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.31/ 2026-03 362 370 Evaluating Large Language Models on Lithuanian Grammatical Cases Urtė Jakubauskaitė author Raquel G Alhama author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 jakubauskaite-alhama-2026-evaluating 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.32 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.32/ 2026-03 371 377 Tracking the evolution of LLM capabilities for Belarusian with OpenAI Evals Vladislav Poritski author Oksana Volchek author Maksim Aparovich author Volha Harytskaya author Pavel Smrz author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-377-7 poritski-etal-2026-tracking 10.18653/v1/2026.loreslm-1.33 https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.33/ 2026-03 378 387 Beyond Many-Shot Translation: Scaling In-Context Demonstrations For Low-Resource Machine Translation Luis Frentzen Salim author Esteban Carlin author Alexandre Morinvil author Xi Ai author Lun-Wei Ku author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2026) Hansi Hettiarachchi editor Tharindu Ranasinghe editor Alistair Plum editor Paul Rayson editor Ruslan Mitkov editor Mohamed Gaber editor Damith Premasiri editor Fiona Anting Tan editor Lasitha Uyangodage editor Association for 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