Special Issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages
Call for papers: Special Issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages in Journal Natural Language Processing. Submission deadline: December 31, 2025.
A special issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages is now open for submissions in the Journal Natural Language Processing. Neural language models have shown state-of-the-art results in many NLP tasks, but their effectiveness is largely dependent on pre-training resources, making it challenging for low-resource languages.
This special issue aims to provide a forum for researchers to share their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Building LMs for low-resource languages
- Adapting existing LMs for low-resource languages
- Corpora creation and curation technologies
- Benchmarks for evaluating LMs in low-resource languages
- Multilingual/cross-lingual LMs for low-resource languages
Submissions should be formatted according to the journal guidelines and submitted through the manuscript submission system. Select ‘Language Models for Low-Resource Languages’ under Special Issue Designation.
Important dates:
- 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
Tags: Low-Resource Languages, Language Models, NLP, Special Issue, Natural Language Processing, Neural Language Models