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Special Issue on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages

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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