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NLP-LoResNLP 2026 : Journal Natural Language Processing - Special Issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages

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Link: https://loreslm.github.io/specialissue
 
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Submission Deadline Dec 31, 2025
Notification Due Apr 30, 2026
Final Version Due Jun 1, 2026
 

Call For Papers

๐—๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด - ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—œ๐˜€๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜„-๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€

URL - https://loreslm.github.io/specialissue
Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. This special issue aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages.

๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€
We invite submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following.

- Building language models for low-resource languages.
- Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages.
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages.
- Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages.
- Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models.
- Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages.
- Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages.
- Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc.

๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐——๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€
Paper submission: December 31, 2025
First decision: March 31, 2026- April 30, 2026
Revised version submission: May 1, 2026- June 1, 2026
Final decision: August 30, 2026

๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป
Submissions should be formatted according to the journal guidelines available - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-processing/information/author-instructions/preparing-your-materials and submitted through the manuscript submission system https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlp. To ensure your manuscript is considered for this special issue, please select โ€œLanguage Models for Low-Resource Languagesโ€ under Special Issue Designation when uploading your manuscript.

๐—š๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€
Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Mohamed Gaber, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

๐—š๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ
Gรกbor Bella - IMT Atlantique, France
Ana-Maria Bucur - University of Bucharest, Romania
ร‡aฤŸrฤฑ ร‡รถltekin - University of Tรผbingen, Germany
Vera Danilova - Uppsala University, Sweden
Ona de Gibert - University of Helsinki, Finland
Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK
Amal Htait - Aston University, UK
Ali HรผrriyetoฤŸlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia
Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK
Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK
Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Damith Premasiri - Lancaster University, UK
Guokan Shang - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, France
Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK





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