EAMT 2026
EAMT 2026
Location
- Tilburg, Netherlands
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Important Dates
| Workshops submission deadline | 12 November |
| Notification of acceptance of workshops | 01 December |
| Tutorials submission deadline | 18 March |
| Notification of acceptance of tutorials | 24 April |
| Papers submission deadline | 18 March |
| Notification of acceptance of papers | 24 April |
| Workshops | 15 June |
| Final “camera-ready” versions of papers | 08 May |
| Tutorial materials deadline | 08 May |
Schedule
Schedule
Main Conference
Day 1
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Conference Opening | |
| Oral session 1 Research - Technical | ||
| Domain-Aware and Low-Resource LLMs for MT | ||
| 09:30-10:45 | ||
| Multilingual Communication in the Asylum Context: Evaluating LLM-Based Machine Translation with Fuzzy Match Augmentation and Adaptive NMT across Resource Conditions under Low-Data Constraints Thomas Moerman, Arda Tezcan and Lieve Macken | ||
| Why do Large Language Models Fail in Low-resource Translation? Unraveling the Token Dynamics of Large Language Models for Machine Translation Shenbin Qian and Yves Scherrer | ||
| Translating Under Pressure: Domain-Aware LLMs for Crisis Communication Antonio Castaldo, Maria Carmen Staiano, Johanna Monti, Sheila Castilho and Francesca Chiusaroli | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | ☕️ | |
| 11:15-12:15 | Keynote 1 Large Language Models and Machine Translation: From Low-Resource to Unseen Languages Dr. Rachel Bawden | |
| 12:15-13:15 | Poster session 1 Research - Technical Research - Translators and users Implementation and Case Studies | |
| 13:15-14:15 | 🍴 | |
| 14:15-15:15 | Poster session 1 Research - Technical Research - Translators and users Implementation and Case Studies | |
| Diversity and Homogenisation in Generative AI Translation: A Comparative Study of English-Dutch Translation Across Domains Dimitar Shterionov, Noa van Helleman and Eva Vanmassenhove | ||
| LLM-as-a-Jury for Machine Translation Publishability Assessment Alex Yanishevsky and Olivia Norris | ||
| To Write or to Automate Linguistic Prompts, That Is the Question Marina Sánchez-Torrón, Daria Akselrod and Jason Rauchwerk | ||
| CompactQE: Interpretable Translation Quality Estimation via Small Open-Weight LLMS Kamil Guttmann, Zofia Fras, Artur Nowakowski and Krzysztof Jassem | ||
| SinMix2Mono: A Dataset for Code-mixed Romanized Sinhala Translation and Transliteration Rukshan Dias, Deshan Surmanathilaka, Archchana Sindhujan and Minidu Nimna | ||
| Alignment Quality Degradation Across the Parallel-Comparable Spectrum: A Comparative Analysis Audrey Mash, Jonathan Ayebakuro Orama, Marc Juvilla Garcia and Maite Melero | ||
| ForMaT: Dataset for Visually-Grounded Multilingual PDF Translation Michal Ciesiólka, Dawid Wiśniewski, Adrian Charkiewicz and Kamil Guttmann | ||
| Bridging Domains for Automatic Post-Editing: A Classifier-Guided Multi-Domain Adaptation Framework Sourabh Deoghare, Diptesh Kanojia and Pushpak Bhattacharyya | ||
| Mitigating Gender Bias in English-Ukrainian Machine Translation Models Pavels Ivanovs, Gina Welsh and Irini Selenica | ||
| IndicDISCO-MT: A Discourse-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Indian Language Machine Translation Hell Hingrajiya, Vennela Bairi, Vandan Mujadia, Dipti Sharma, Parameswari Krishnamurthy and Vasudeva Varma | ||
| Multi-Agent Debate for Machine Translation: A Case Study on English-Japanese Translation Zhan Shen, Jason Naradowsky, Xiaotian Wang and Yusuke Miyao | ||
| Fuzzy Matching and Sentence Embeddings for Few-shot Machine Translation with Large Language Models Miguel Angel Rios Gaona, Claudia Plieseis, Dragos Ciobanu and Alina Secara | ||
| Can professional translators identify machine-generated text? Michael Farrell | ||
| “All those in favour will please say yea”: Understanding the Factors Behind Machine Translation Adoption at the Canadian Parliament Jeniffer Leal-Wyss, Delaney Lothian, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Rebecca Knowles and Michel Simard | ||
| Translation Analytics for Freelancers II: Benchmarking Local LLMs for Confidential Translation Workflows Yuri Balashov, Rex Vanhorn, Austin Downes and Mingxi Xu | ||
| Reaching multilingual communities: a survey mapping MT use in the West Midlands (UK) third and public sector organisations David Orrego-Carmona, Priyanki Ghosh and Susana Valdez | ||
| The Potential of Large Language Models for Translating Tourism Promotional Texts: A Mixed-methods Study Raghad Alsulami | ||
| AI Post-Editing in Production: A 71,262-Segment Evaluation Across Five Domains, Ten Languages and Five Systems Mara Nunziatini and Mercedes Speroni | ||
| Reasoning as Supportive Context for Machine Translation: A Case Study on Hindi to Bengali Language Pair Saksham Singh, Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh and Asif Ekbal | ||
| Embedding Similarity Is Not Quality Estimation: Lessons from Replacing a Dedicated QE Model Dimitrios Zaikis, Andrea Biondo, Matthew Dixon, Konstantinos Karageorgos and Aaron Schliem | ||
| Enhancing LLM Translation Performance for Spanish - Valencian through Supervised Fine-tuning and Reinforcement Learning Paula Guerrero Castelló | ||
| 15:15-15:45 | ☕️ | |
| 15:45-17:50 | Oral session 2 Research - Translators and use cases | |
| MT in Use: Professional Practice and Creative Contexts | ||
| Smarter edits? Post-editing with error highlights and translation suggestions Fleur V.J. van Tellingen, Gautam Ranka, Žugčić Dora, Joyce van der Wal, Andrea Camasta, Livio Guerra and Alina Karakanta | ||
| It’s like talking about how I use a pencil: Journalists’ use of machine translation in their work Mary Nurminen and Nina Havumetsä | ||
| Creative Bias: How Machine Evaluation Struggles with Creativity in Literary Translations Kyo Gerrits, Rik van Noord and Ana Guerberof Arenas | ||
| Audio description between MT translation and recreation: An Interview Study for the Language Pair English-German Merle Sauter, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Sylvia Jaki | ||
| Automatic translation in public services: A survey of the Finnish public Sıla Ilkılıç, Maarit Koponen and Mary Nurminen | ||
| 18:30-22:00 | Social Event |
Day 2
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-09:05 | Announcements | |
| 09:05-09:55 | Oral session 3 Research - Translators and users | |
| Critical Perspectives on MT: Safety and Creative Language | ||
| A Multilingual Red Teaming-Driven Safety Analysis of LLMs Patricia Pandeiro, Vera Cabarrão and Helena Moniz | ||
| Metaphors in Literary Post-Editing: Opening Pandora’s Box? Aletta G. Dorst, Mayra O. Nas and Kalinka Zeven | ||
| 10:00-10:55 | Poster boaster session 2 Products and projects | |
| 10:55-11:25 | ☕️ | |
| 11:25-12:25 | Poster session 2 Products and projects | |
| Literacy-Grounded and Industry-Oriented Translation Training with LT-LIDER Janiça Hackenbuchner, Maria Isabel Rivas Ginel, Joss Moorkens, Sheila Castilho, Nora Aranberri, Sergi Alvarez Vidal, Maria do Campo Bayón and Ralph Krüger | ||
| MATIAS Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers: final results July De Wilde, Anais Wouters, Arda Tezcan, Simon Van den Meersschaut, Katrijn Maryns and Lieve Macken | ||
| OSCAIL-OpenScience Communication through AI in EU Languages Sheila Castilho, Susanna Fiorini, Lynne Bowker, Petr Motlicek, Joss Moorkens, Lieve Macken, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Janne Pölönen, Sami Syrjämäki, Mikael Laakso, Mark Fishel and Anastasia Stasenko | ||
| “Anon: A Multi-Agent Translation Platform with Context-Aware Quality Control Emanuele Di Rosa and Piotr Peszynski | ||
| VERA: A Platform for Automatic and Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Sofia Garcia González, Inés Quintana Rafla, Jorge N. Afonso Cabido, Alberto Hernández Lado, German Rigau Claramunt and Sheila Castilho | ||
| Presentation of the Project CLingS: Cross-lingual information retrieval for scientific datasets in less-resourced languages Valentina Fedchenko, Ka-Lim and Milan Rusko | ||
| ARTICULATE: Science in your Own Language Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, Matthew P. Aylett, Benjamin R. Cowan, Justin Edwards, Sanna Järvelä, Joannis Konstas and Madeleine Steeds | ||
| HERMES: Human Evaluation & Ranking of Multiple Systems Rex Vanhorn | ||
| The MULTI-TRAD Project: Parallel Corpora and Multidimensional Analysis of Human, Machine and Post-Edited Translation in the Third Social Sector Maria del Mar Sánchez Ramos, Douglas E. Biber, Cristina Cano Fernández, Irene Fuentes Pérez, Diana González Pastor, Larissa Goulart da Silva, Marcelo Yuri Himoro, Dorothy Kenny, Leida Maria Monaco, Maria Teresa Ortego Antón, Cristina Plaza Lara, Verónica Redondo Astilleros, Celia Rico Pérez, Tania Salvador Blázquez, Muhammad Shakir and Franciso J. Vigier Moreno | ||
| Parallel Corpus Development Toolkit (PCDT): A Web-Based Platform for Multilingual Parallel Data Creation Praveen Acharya, Rupak Ghimire, Bipesh Subedi, Prakash Poudyal, Balaram Prasain and Bal Krishna Bal | ||
| English-Nepali-Tamang: A Trilingual Parallel Corpus and Benchmark for Low-Resource Machine Translation Praveen Acharya, Rupak Raj Ghimire, Prakash Poudyal, Balaram Prasain and Bal Krishna Bal | ||
| TELO: AI-Driven Automatic Subtitling for the Promotion of the Performing Arts Antoni Oliver, Silvia Rodriguez Vázquez and Manel Jiménez | ||
| DA+Criteria: A New Quality Assessment Method for Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Translation Bettina Hiebl | ||
| Adaptive CAT-embedded MT for low-memory, low-compute end-user devices Marek Sabo | ||
| Scalable Video-Based Search in the VGT Dictionary Toon Vandendriessche, Caro Brosens, Hannes De Durpel, Mathieu De Coster and Joni Dambre | ||
| TaMTAS: Terminology-Aware Machine Translation for Accessible Science Large Corpus compilation, terminology extraction and data augmentation Sergi Alvarez-Vidal and Antoni Oliver | ||
| Advanced CAT Tool Features for Enhancing Consistency in MT and Generative AI Outputs Judith Klein | ||
| Translation 2.0. Equipping linguists for the machine translation future Alina Karakanta and Vasilis Kalogiannis | ||
| Making Jobs Accessible through AI-supported Easy Language Translation Fabian Merkel, Marco Baumgartner, Athanasios Breskas, Lea Gierke, Silke Gutermuth, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Elena Kick, Vanessa König, Tobias Kopp, Natalie Martin and Miriam Spieß | ||
| Prompsit’s API and CLI planet-friendly, privacy-first, open-source translation services for everyone Lev Nikolaevich Berezhnoy, Gema Ramirez Sánchez, Sergio Ortiz Rojas and Mikel Forcada | ||
| Advancing Medical Communication: Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multimodal Processing for Translation and Simplification Mana Pia Di Buono | ||
| Does Speech Translation Meet Users’ Needs? An English to Portuguese Study Across Demographics Giuseppe Attanasio, Beatrice Savoldi, Daniel Chechelnitsky, Matteo Negri, Marine Carpuat and André Filipe Torres Martins | ||
| CRITICS Critical Science Without Borders by Translation of Scientific Knowledge Rodrigo Agerti, Itziar Aldabe, Elena Cabrio, Mark Ciellebak, Jan Deriu, Mariana Flores, Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Dovilė Kuizinienė, Arantza Rico, Aritz Ruiz-González, Aitor Sorca, Mantas Vaškevičius and Serena Villata | ||
| 12:25-13:15 | Oral session 4 Research - Technical | |
| Richer and Fairer MT: Lexical Diversity and Gender Bias | ||
| Diversity-Aware Literary Machine Translation with Multi-Reward Policy Optimization Zeynep Yirmibeşoğlu Balal and Tunga Güngör | ||
| Explaining GAND: A Resource on Gender-Ambiguous Natural Data & Contrastive Attribution Janiça Hackenbuchner, Jasper Degraeuwe, Arda Tezcan and Joke Daems | ||
| 13:15-14:15 | 🍴 | |
| 14:15-15:05 | Oral session 5 Implementation and case studies | |
| Visually-aware Machine Translation | ||
| Towards Visually-Guided Movie Subtitle Translation for Indic Languages: A Case Study Tarun Chintada, Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh and Asif Ekbal | ||
| Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Exploration and Implementation Considerations for Visual Context in Translation Workflows Vera Senderowicz Guerra and Olesia Khrapunova | ||
| 15:05-15:30 | ☕️ | |
| 15:30-16:45 | Oral session 6 Implementation and Case Studies | |
| MT Systems in Deployment: Workflows and Institutional Adoption | ||
| The MaTOS Pipeline for the Translation of Scientific Abstracts on the HAL Platform Panagiotis Tsolakis, Ziqian Peng, Laurent Romary, François Yvon and Rachel Bawden | ||
| Automated information Extraction and Template Filling from Client Style Guides Leonor Graça, Vera Cabarrão and Helena Moniz | ||
| A Longitudinal Study of the Adoption of Specialized MT Systems in Canadian Parliamentary Translation Michel Simard, Jeniffer Leal-Wyss, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne and Rebecca Knowles | ||
| 16:45-17:45 | EAMT General Assembly | |
| 18:30-22:00 | Gala Dinner |
Day 3
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-09:05 | Announcements | |
| 09:05-10:45 | Oral session 7 Research - Technical | |
| Research Frontiers in MT: Evaluation, Specialisation, and Robustness | ||
| MetaDocEval. A Contrastive Framework for Evaluating Machine Translation Metrics at the Document-Level Nicolas Dahan, Rachel Bawden and François Yvon | ||
| One Size Does Not Fit All: Why EU Legislative Translation Demands Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of LLMs Valerio Lorini, Paula Vlaic, Ulascan Akbulut and Daniele Marcoaldi | ||
| Augmenting Text to Increase Translation Difficulty William Kalikman, Simon Sukup, Michal Tešnar and Vilém Zouhar | ||
| Using Model Disagreement to Identify Unstable Regions in MT Evaluation Vitalii Iakivchuk | ||
| 10:45-11:15 | ☕️ | |
| 11:15-11:40 | Platinum Sponsor Presentation | |
| 11:45-12:45 | Keynote 2 Flipping the Script: The Case for a Human-Initiated, AI-Augmented Translation Pipeline Dr. Antonio Toral | |
| 12:45-13:45 | 🍴 | |
| 13:45-14:20 | Best Thesis Award Announcement and Presentation | |
| 14:20-15:10 | Poster boaster session 3 Research - Technical Research - Translators and users Implementation and case studies | |
| 15:10-15:40 | ☕️ | |
| 15:10-16:45 | Poster session 3 Research-Technical Research- Translators and users Implementation and case studies | |
| Beyond Simple Term Injection: Reasoning Models for Legal Translation in a Non-Dominant Language Variety Paolo Di Natale, Elena Chiocchetti, Marlies Alber and Egon W. Stemle | ||
| Beyond Semantics: Measuring Fine-Grained Emotion Preservation in Small Language Model Based Machine Translation Dawid Wiśniewski and Igor Czudy | ||
| LORA Fine-Tuning of English-Norwegian NMT for the Oil & Gas Industry Xiaojing Yang, Zhihan Li, Gege Sun, Mengyue Li and Meriem Beloucif | ||
| Terminology-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Distillation for Biomedical Neural Machine Translation Maria Zafar, Souhail Bakkali and Rejwanul Haque | ||
| Improving Retrieval-Augmented Neural Machine Translation with Monolingual Data Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego, Dakun Zhang and François Yvon | ||
| Evaluating Terminology Translation Methods Iikka Hauhio, Théo Salmenkivi-Friberg and Tommi Nieminen | ||
| Evaluating Machine Translation and Automatic Metrics in Subtitling: A Case Study on Spanish Multiword Expressions Maria Miró Maestre and Ivan Martinez-Murillo | ||
| When the Gold Standard Isn’t Necessarily Standard: Challenges of Evaluating the Translation of User-Generated Content Lydia Nishimwe, Benoit Sagot and Rachel Bawden | ||
| The Challenge of Finding Robust and Efficient Strategies for Training Machine Translation Models with Noisy Data Mikko Auiamo, Sami Virpioja, Yves Scherrer and Jörg Tiedemann | ||
| The Two Towers for Estonian-Centric and Finno-Ugric Machine Translation Mark Fisher and Lisa Yankovskaya | ||
| LocRegen: Cost-Efficient Redundancy Removal in Multilingual E-commerce Titles with Small Language Models Bryan Zhang, Stephan Walter, Merve Arinik and Luca Lomanto | ||
| Extending Creativity: Large Language Models and the Practice of Poetry Translation Natalia Resende and James Hadley | ||
| Meaning-Making Process and Error Dynamics in ChatGPT-Mediated Translation Maria-José Varela Salinas and Iulia Mihalache | ||
| Evaluating the Effect of Prompt Language on LLM-based Translation: Evidence from Spanish Italian Translation Antonella Bove, Paola Di Cataldo and Davide Maestroni | ||
| Machine Translation in the Wild. User Reaction to Xiaohongshu’s Built-in Translation Feature Sui He | ||
| AI-assisted cultural heritage dissemination: Comparing NMT and glossary-augmented LLM translation in rock art documents Vicent Briva-Iglesias and Maria Ferre Fernández | ||
| Artificial intelligence language technologies in multilingual healthcare Grand challenges ahead Vicent Briva-Iglesias | ||
| Quality and Comprehensibility of Interlingual Subtitles Produced by Humans or with Machines Lara Shoana Schlüter, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Sylvia Jaki | ||
| Quebec Translators in the Age of AI. Perceptions on the Evolution and Sustainability of the Translation Profession Lynne Bowker and Monyka L. Rodrigues | ||
| On the Use of LLMs for Specialised Terminology: A Good Alternative to Corpora? Joachim Minder, Guillaume Wisniewski and Natalie Kübler | ||
| Blinded by Fluency: How Idiomatic Machine Translation Outputs Affect Student Post-Editors’ Edit Types Valentin Scourneau and Loic De Fana Pires | ||
| The Role of Prompt Language and Translation Theory-Driven Prompts in Large Language Models: A Case Study on Spanish-Chinese Editorial Translation Haohong Lai and Weijia Li | ||
| 16:45-17:15 | Closing Remarks |