Call for Papers: NortheastGenAI 2026
First Workshop on AI-Assisted Research for Northeast India's Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems

May 29, 2026 | Virtual | Free
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026, 11:59 PM IST
Notifications: May 23, 2026
Workshop: May 29, 2026

NortheastGenAI 2026 is the first workshop dedicated to AI-assisted research on Northeast India. The region is home to over 200 languages across eight states - many endangered, almost entirely absent from NLP and computational linguistics research.
Inspired by Agents4Science 2025 at Stanford University, we adapt the model for one of the world's most linguistically diverse and underserved regions.

Tracks:

T1 — Language, Culture and Heritage
Low-resource NLP, ASR and MT, Script and OCR, Oral traditions, Folklore, Indigenous knowledge, Digital archiving
T2 — Society, History and Anthropology
Community structures, Migration and identity, Oral history, Ethnography, Indigenous governance, Gender studies
T3 — AI and Technology for NE India
AI applications, Low-resource models, EdTech, GovTech, Digital infrastructure, Multilingual systems

Guidelines:
AI-assisted or AI-generated with mandatory disclosure
Maximum 4 pages excluding references
Any standard academic format
Non-archival
Maximum 6 pages (single column) or 4 pages (two-column), excluding references

Submit: openreview.net/group?id=NortheastGenAI/2026/Workshop
Website: northeastgenai.github.io
Contact: connect@mwirelabs.com