@inproceedings{gessler-etal-2026-missing, title = "The Missing Middle: Language Documentation Needs Better Infrastructure, Not Better Models", author = {Gessler, Luke and Anastasopoulos, Antonios and Auderset, Sandra and Bodt, Timotheus and Chelliah, Shobhana and Christian, Sebastien and Fily, Maxime and Herrera, Santiago and Huber, Eva and Loaiciga, Sharid and Meelen, Marieke and {\"O}stling, Robert and Palmer, Alexis and Visser, Eline}, editor = "Agyapong, Godfred and Moeller, Sarah and Arppe, Antti and Marashian, Ali and Rosenblum, Daisy", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages ({C}omput{EL}-9)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.computel-1.15/", pages = "136--147", ISBN = "979-8-89176-422-4" }