@inproceedings{real-de-paiva-2026-opencor,
    title = "{O}pen{C}or: {L}atin {A}merican and {I}berian Languages Open Corpora Forum",
    author = "Real, Livy  and
      de Paiva, Valeria",
    editor = "Claramunt, German Rigau  and
      Gamallo, Pablo  and
      Mu{\~n}oz Guillena, Rafael  and
      Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Mart{\'i}nez C{\'a}mara, Eugenio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of {LANLP}: Bridging {I}bero and {L}atin {A}merican {NLP} Communities",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/backfill-openreview/2026.lanlp-1.4/",
    doi = "10.63317/42vgyuuoduhr",
    pages = "21--28",
    abstract = "The availability of open resources and corpora is a fundamental requirement for research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics; however, languages spoken in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, particularly Indigenous, minority, and regional varieties, remain structurally under-resourced and under-represented. This paper presents a historical account of OpenCor (Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum), a community-driven initiative created to promote, document, and discuss open linguistic corpora and lexical resources for these languages. Conceived as a collaborative forum rather than a competitive evaluation venue, OpenCor focuses on data creation, licensing practices, sustainability, and community building. Between 2018 and 2024, OpenCor was organized as a recurring workshop co-located with major conferences, fostering dialogue across countries, institutions, and linguistic traditions. By documenting the initiative{'}s motivations, organizational trajectory, submission trends, and the diversity of resources presented, this paper aims to preserve institutional memory, highlight the often-invisible labor of corpus development, and provide a reference for future initiatives dedicated to openness and linguistic diversity."
}