The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025)

https://www.loresmt.org/

@ NAACL 2025 (May 3–4, 2025)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.


SUBMISSION


https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2025/Workshop/LoResMT


TIMELINE


Paper submission due: January 30, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)

Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: February 20, 2025

Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2025

Camera-ready papers due: March 10, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)

Pre-recorded video due (hard deadline): April 8, 2025

Workshop dates at NAACL 2025: May 3–4, 2025


SCOPE


Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018, MT Summit 2019, AACL-IJCNLP 2020, AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, EACL 2023, ACL 2024, we introduce LoResMT 2025 workshop at NAACL 2025. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output.



TOPICS


We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.


- Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages

- Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems

- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems

- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers

- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages

- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages

- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs

- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT

- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT

- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages

- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages

- Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages

- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages

- Pivot MT for low-resource languages

- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages

- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages

- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages

- Machine translation for language preservation



SUBMISSION INFORMATION


We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL style templates (Overleaf). Please refer to the NAACL submission guideline for further information. Accepted papers will be published at ACL Anthology in the NAACL 2025 and will be presented at the conference.

Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at NAACL 2025. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review.

We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided.

Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2025.naacl.org/).



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)


Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway

Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd

Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit

Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College

Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines)

Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University

Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China



PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)


Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore
Ali Hatami, University of Galway
Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), University of Trento
Anna Currey, AWS AI Labs
Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Walmart Global Technology
Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP
Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University
Chao-hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA
Daan van Esch, Google
Dana Moukheiber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS
Flammie Pirinen, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

Gaurav Negi, University of Galway

Jinliang Lu, Institute of automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
John Philip McCrae, University of Galway
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University
Majid Latifi, UPC University
Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños

Milind Agarwal, George Mason University

Mathias Müller, University of Zurich

Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University and Lexical Computing
Pengwei Li, Meta
Rashid Ahmad, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich

Santanu Pal, Wipro
Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki
Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University
Thepchai Supnithi, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki

Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University
Wen Lai, LMU Munich
Xuebo Liu, Harbin Institute of Technolgy, Shenzhen
Yalemisew Abgaz, Dublin City University
Yasmin Moslem, Bering Lab
Zhanibek Kozhirbayev, National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University



CONTACT


Please email loresmt@googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.