WMT26
Tenth Conference on Machine Translation
Location
- Budapest, Hungary
Links
Call for papers
Topics
- MT models (neural, statistical etc.)
- Analysis of neural models for MT
- Using comparable corpora for MT
- Selection and preparation of data for MT
- Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning for MT, transfer learning
- Multilingual MT
- Incorporating linguistic information into MT
- MT inference
- Manual and automatic methods for evaluating MT
- Quality estimation for MT
Schedule
Day 1
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Session 1: Shared Task Overview Papers I |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Findings of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Contrastive Dynamic Human Evaluation at Scale Tom Kocmi, Ekaterina Artemova, Eleftherios Avramidis, Rachel Bawden, Ondřej Bojar, Sergey Dukanov, Anton Dvorkovich, Mark Fishel, Markus Freitag, Samuel Frontull, Thamme Gowda, Roman Grundkiewicz, Barry Haddow, Stan Kharevich, Philipp Koehn, Zheng Li, Jean Maillard, Christof Monz, Alexander Murauski, Kenton Murray, Masaaki Nagata, Stefano Perrella, Martin Popel, Maja Popović, Lorenzo Proietti, Sara Rajaee, Parker Riley, Mariya Shmatova, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Lisa Yankovskaya, Vilem Zouhar |
| 9:25 - 9:45 | Findings of the WMT26 Shared Task on Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Systems: Compact Open Models are Competitive Quality Evaluators Alon Lavie, Greg Hanneman, Stefano Perrella, Shuoyang Ding, Eleftherios Avramidis, Lorenzo Proietti, Chi-kiu Lo, Ammon Shurtz, Chrysoula Zerva, Archchana Sindhujan, Vilem Zouhar, Diptesh Kanojia, Frederic Blain, Brian Thompson, Giorgos Filandrianos, Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis, Tom Kocmi, Pranav Gupta |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Findings of the WMT26 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task: Small Models Are Not Yet Polyglots Patricia Schmidtova, Ekaterina Artemova, Seth Aycock, Niyati Bafna, Shobhit Banga, Manmeet Kaur, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Danni Liu, Nam Luu, Sara Papi, Beatrice Savoldi, Mariya Shmatova, Hanuman Sidh, Evfrosiniya Zerminova, Vilem Zouhar, Maike Züfle, Pinzhen Chen |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Findings of the WMT26 Terminology Translation Task: The Hard Part is Finding the Terms, Not Using Them Adrian Charkiewicz, Pinzhen Chen, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Harritxu Gete, Kamil Guttmann, Xu Huang, David Ponce, Artur Nowakowski, Frederic Odermatt, Arturo Oncevay, Dawei Zhu, Vilem Zouhar, Kirill Semenov |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Findings of the WMT 2026 Shared Task on Model Compression: No Free Lunch at Extreme Compression Thamme Gowda, Marco Gaido, Roman Grundkiewicz, Matteo Negri |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | ☕️ |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session 2: Invited Talk by Marta Ruiz Costa-jussa: “Towards Omnilinguality in AI: MT as a Starting Point for Language Coverage and Capability Parity” |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Session 3: Shared Task Posters I |
| General Translation Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LiLa at WMT 2026 General MT Task: Exploring Beyond NMT and Learning the Limits of LLM Adaptation for Ligurian and Ladin Mirelle Candida Bueno, Lucas Domingues, Samuel Frontull, Jean Maillard, Sushil Garg |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | SCIR-TG-MT’s Submission for the WMT 2026 General Machine Translation Task Xiayu Cao, Baohang Li, Zekun Yuan, Zekai Ye, Xiaocheng Feng |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | GRIAL-TA participation in the WMT26 General Translation Shared Task: SalamandraTA7bFFT marta cozzini, Antoni Oliver, Gonzalo López-Sánchez, Mercè Vàzquez, Patricia Morales-Hurtado, Sergi Alvarez-Vidal |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Dubformer at WMT26 General MT: Translating the Video, Not the Transcript Sergey Dukanov, Maria Tsyurupa, Anton Dvorkovich |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Relay-MT: Multi-agent LLM Ensembling for Machine Translation – Samsung R&D Poland Submission for WMT2026 Adam Dobrowolski, Paweł Przybysz, Marcin Szymański, Paweł Przewłocki, Artur Janicki |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Grammatist at WMT 2026 General MT Task: An Agentic LLM Framework for Machine Translation with Explicit Linguistic Knowledge Samuel Frontull, Jean Maillard, Christopher R. Haberland, Ruth Videsott, Stefano Lusito |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | HW-TSC’s Submission to the WMT 2026 General Machine Translation Track Yu He, Xiaoqing Lan, Daimeng Wei, Jiaxin GUO, Yuanchang Luo, Hengchao Shang, Zongyao Li, Jinlong Yang, Zhanglin Wu, Boqi Huang |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | CUNI-MH and CUNI-EdUKate at the WMT26 General MT Shared Task Miroslav Hrabal, Josef Jon, Ondřej Bojar |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | CUNI-AR Team at WMT26 General Translation Task for Egyptian Arabic Josef Jon, Rawan Bondok, Miroslav Hrabal, Ondřej Bojar |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | In the Blind: Building Pseudo-References for MT Evaluation Diptesh Kanojia, Chi-kiu Lo, Archchana Sindhujan, Samuel Larkin, Greg Hanneman, Alon Lavie |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+) Tom Kocmi, Alexandre Berard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Rafael Cassini, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo, Yiyang Nan, Michael Sachs, Trisha Starostina, Daan van Stigt, Spencer Taylor Rarrick, Sebastian Vincent, Ivan Zhang, Nicholas Frosst |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | AdaptiveMT at WMT26: A Controller–Executor–Reducer Agent Harness for Document-Level Translation Soyoung Lee |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | BSC Submission for WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task Audrey Mash, Jonathan Orama Ayebakuro, Ella Paulina Bohman, Xixian Liao, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Maite Melero |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | RFMT at WMT 2026 General Translation Task Ryosuke Matsuda, Keito Kudo, Ryo Fujii, Takumi Ito, Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | MakotoAI at WMT26: Per-Pair Model Selection with Deterministic Output Normalization for the General Machine Translation Task Chris Nishihama |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | ReMova: Fine-tuning LLMs for English to Belarusian translation Mikita Pilinka, Aliaksandr Kliuyeu, David Samuel, Yves Scherrer |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Apertium-sme-eng for WMT2026 shared task—creating new pair by crossing dictionaries and translating rules Flammie A. Pirinen |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Yandex at WMT26: Translation Adaptation at 235B and Hard-Label Distillation to 8B Dmitrii Popov, Elizaveta Kozlova, Ekaterina Taracheva, Elizaveta Makhotina, Artem Mekhraliev, Miron Baratelia, Ekaterina Enikeeva, Nikolay Karpachev |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Wayfinder: An Agentic Ensemble-and-Postcheck System for WMT26 GenMT Liangying Shao, Xinwei Wu, Yichong Huang, Jifang Wang, Ruoxi Xu, Ling Shi, Baosong Yang, Linlong Xu |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | What a DRAG (it is being small): The AMI Submission to the WMT 2026 General Translation Shared Task Steinþór Steingrímsson, Sveinbjörn Þórðarson, Jón Friðrik Daðason |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Krosny at WMT26 General Translation Task: Dictionary Augmentation and Iterative Refinement for English–Belarusian Translation Oksana Volchek, Vladislav Poritski |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lumen at WMT2026: Instruction-Specialized Translation via Quality-Aware Training and On-Policy Distillation Hao Wang, Yangyang Liu, Xiaohu Zhao, Heng Liu, Zifu Shang, Tianhao Li, Ruize Gao, Jialong Tang, Shiao Shao, Haoran Wei, Baosong Yang, Linlong Xu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | UvA-MT’s Participation in the WMT26 General Translation Shared Task Di Wu, Sergey Troshin, Wafaa Mohammed, Seth Aycock, Evgeniia Tokarchuk, Vlad Niculae, Christof Monz |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | QINGQIU-MT-9B: An Instruction-Following Multilingual Translation Model Tian Xia, Chao Chen, Mengpeng Yang, Jingxu Yang, Yabo Sun, Qiang Liu |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TRIVE: A Tri-Fusion Verified Translation Agent Mengpeng Yang, Tian Xia, Jingxu Yang, Chao Chen, Yabo Sun, Qiang Liu |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TransCore: The NewTranx Submission to the Constrained Track of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task Hao Yu, Ziyan Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Yulong Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Kaiyu Huang, Degen Huang |
| MT Test Suites Shared Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | KUEST: Korean game Usage Evaluation Suite for LLM Translation Minjoo Choi, Jaejun Jung, Gunwoo Han, Junhyeop Kim, Yiji Yoon, Hyemi Kim, Yeonseo Cho, Jinwoo Jang |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Terminology Resources as (MT) Benchmarks: Evaluation of Legal Terminology Challenges in German Language Varieties by EURAC Paolo Di Natale, Elena Chiocchetti, Natascia Ralli, Marlies Alber, Egon W. Stemle |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Mind the Gap: Exposing LLM Translation Blind Spots Using the AlphaMWE Multilingual Parallel Corpus Lifeng Han, Jiahui Liang, Anna Latusek, Karim El Haff, Amal Haddad Haddad, Josua Höfgen, Kilian Evang, Min Ma, Maryia Zhyrko |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lost in Morphology at WMT26: A Korean-English Test Suite for LLM Translation Blind Spots Deun Sol Lee, Dae Woong Kim, Yun Ha Seo |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Evaluating Occupational Gender Bias and Male Default in Turkish-to-English Machine Translation Yusuf Öztop |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Bjarki Ármannsson, Atli Jasonarson, Helga Svala Sigurdardottir, Jón Símon Markússon |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | “I’m Sorry, I Can’t Translate That”: A Challenge Set for Refusal to Translate, Overgeneration and Hallucination in LLM Translation Systems Lisa Vasileva |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Finding the Gaps in LLM Translation with CoST Saumitra Yadav, Ananya Mukherjee, Manish Shrivastava |
| Translation Quality Evaluation Shared Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Phrase at WMT26 Automated MT Evaluation Task Alan Eckhardt, Ondrej Glembek, Craig Stewart |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | FECE: A Challenge Set for Evaluating Fine-Grained Translation Error Correction Jie Ding, Xiangyu Duan |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Pterodactyl: Pushing the Limits of Efficient Automated Translation Evaluation Evelyn Y. Garland, Carola F. Berger |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | AGGREE: An Aggregation-Grounded Challenge Set for Segment-Level MT Metric Evaluation Lena Griesbeck, Michaela Geierhos |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | CUNI at the WMT26 Automated MT Evaluation Shared Task Miroslav Hrabal, Ondřej Bojar |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | HUFS-DILAB at WMT 2026 Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Task 1: Language-Pair Prompt Routing for Error Span Annotation Jisoo Jang, Haewon Cho, Seungtaek Choi |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | FACET at WMT 2026 Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Task Ahrii Kim, Chanjun Park, Seong-heum Kim |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | PragmaSpan at WMT26: Taxonomy-Guided Few-Shot Error Span Detection and an Empirical Analysis of MPP Soyoung Lee |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Benchmarking Gender Bias in Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics across Occupations Orfeas Menis Mastromichalakis, Giorgos Filandrianos, Wafaa Mohammed, Giuseppe Attanasio, Chrysoula Zerva |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Translation Metrics Cannot Judge What Their Tokeniser Deletes: LIGATUR and AEGIS Submissions to the WMT26 Shared Task on Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Animesh Mishra, Krishang Sharma, Sonia Khetarpaul |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Algebras FluencyScore at WMT26 Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Airana Mongush, Dmitrii Pukhov |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Vertical: Quality Estimation of Machine Translation from Université Grenoble Alpes Mariam Nakhlé, Raheel Qader, Marco Dinarelli, Hervé Blanchon |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Post-hoc Correction of Machine Translation Error Span Predictions Benjamin Pong |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Leveraging Verbalized Confidence in LLM-as-a-Judge for Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Richard Servajean, Mohammad Golam Sohrab, Lucie Kunitomo-Jacquin, Matiss Rikters |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Reference-Free Consensus Evaluation of Machine Translation: Ensembling LLM Error-Span Judgments with Neutral Cross-Verification and STAPLE Reliability Fusion Assaf Siani |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | QEbreak at WMT26: A Pre-Registered Audit of Omission and Addition Asymmetry in Machine Translation Quality Metrics Maksim Silchenko |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | SpinPop: A Fast Spin Metric for the WMT26 Metrics Shared Task Jia Xu |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Beyond Rankings: Insights from ALTAE’s PTT-MULTITAN Submission to the WMT 2026 Shared Task on Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Systems Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina-Poirot, Nicolas Froeliger |
| Terminology Translation Shared Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | RWS at WMT26 Terminology Translation Task Jon Cambra Guinea, Andrea Alfieri |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | UniOR-MT: An Agentic Pipeline for Terminology Translation Antonio Castaldo, Giulia Speranza, Maria Carmen Staiano, Petra Giommarelli, Johanna Monti, Maria Pia Di Buono |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Agenteak: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Terminology-Constrained Spanish-Basque Translation Jurgi Giraud, Andrew Gargett |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | HW-TSC’s Submission to the WMT26 Terminology Translation Shared Task Boqi Huang, Daimeng Wei, Jiaxin GUO, Yuanchang Luo, Hengchao Shang, Zongyao Li, Jinlong Yang, Zhanglin Wu, Yu He, Xiaoqing Lan |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | SalamandraTA at WMT 2026 Terminology Shared Task: Hard Examples Are Better Teachers Xixian Liao, Maite Melero |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | GRIAL-TA participation in the WMT26 Terminology Shared Task Gonzalo López-Sánchez, Antoni Oliver, marta cozzini, Mercè Vàzquez, Patricia Morales-Hurtado, Sergi Alvarez-Vidal |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | STaR-MT: Select, Translate, and Revise Pipeline for Terminology Aware Machine Translation Guilherme Aren Marchetti, Gil Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TARL: A Terminology-Aware Agentic Repair Loop for Language-Agnostic Translation Shivam Ratnakant Mhaskar, Vrunda Nileshkumar Sukhadia, Anurag Deshmukh, Manan Sharma, Pawan Kumar Rajpoot |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | CUNI-ÚFAL at the WMT26 Terminology Translation Task Aleš Manuel Manuel Papáček, Tomáš Sourada |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Tilde’s Submission for the WMT2026 Shared Task on Terminology Translation Marcis Pinnis, Martins Kronis, Emils Grims, Ervins Jakovelis, Roberts Rozis, Toms Bergmanis |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | UniVie-HAITrans at WMT26 Terminology Translation Task: Terminology-Guided Data Filtering and Few-Shot Fine-Tuning for Lightweight LLMs Miguel Angel Rios Gaona |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | STRA-MT: Deterministic Terminology Control for Document-Level Machine Translation Vania Velda, Yigyu Hwang, Yongho Kim |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TaT at WMT26 Terminology Translation Shared Task Fan Zhang, Tu Mei, Zhang Mengchao, Jinting Wu, Bowbjut.edu.cnen Zhang |
| Multilingual Instruction Shared Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | A Monolingual LoRA-Tuned Qwen2.5-3B System for Arabic Context-Based Question Answering Hasan Alkhder, Maria Hanini, Imane Hocine, Maher Pasa, Amro Najjar |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Laniqo at WMT26 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task (MIST): Full-Parameter Knowledge Distillation with Task-Conditional Pivot Decoding Under a 10B-Parameter Constraint Adrian Charkiewicz, Artur Nowakowski |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | SentinelQA: Task-Level Routing and Output Verification for Multilingual Instruction Following Asher Uyiosa Egerton-Idehen |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TUM-Heilbronn: WMT26 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task Jen-Chien Hou, Tsedeniya Kinfe Temesgen, Alexander Fraser |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Probe Before you Answer! Answerability Probing for Abstention in Cross-Lingual Context-Based Question Answering Lea Krause, Stefan F. Schouten, Michiel van der Meer, Piek T.J.M. Vossen |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | CUNI-UFAL at WMT26 Multilingual Instruction Shared Task Aleš Manuel Manuel Papáček, Patricia Schmidtova |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | PSK at WMT 2026 MIST: Task-Specialized QLoRA Adapters for Multilingual Summarization and Question Answering Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Task-Preserving Multilingual Instruction Tuning for Open-Ended QA at WMT 2026 MIST Aleix Sant, Jordi Luque Serrano, Carlos Escolano Peinado |
| Model Compression Shared Task | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | COMET Sensitivity-Guided Mixed Precision Quantization for the WMT26 Model Compression Task Angad Ripudaman Singh Bajwa |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Importance-Guided Structural Pruning of Aya Expanse 8B and Gemma-3-12B for English–Chinese Machine Translation Havish Balaga, Anish Racherla, Kolupoti Navadeep Kiran, Saumitra Yadav, Manish Shrivastava |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Pare4Bit: Quantization, Depth Pruning, and Model Selection for the WMT26 Model Compression Task Nail Fakhrutdinov |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Quantize, Qualify, Rerank: A Recipe for Compressing LLMs Without Losing Quality Thamme Gowda |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | WMT26 Model Compression Task: Quantising and Distilling TildeOpen Martins Kronis, Toms Bergmanis, Ingus Jānis Pretkalniņš, Marcis Pinnis |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | ESTS at WMT26: Routing-Informed Expert Pruning for Model Compression Liu O. Martin, Lucas Bandarkar, Nanyun Peng |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | TMU-onono at WMT26: DiBA-Based Model Compression for Czech-to-German Machine Translation Nobutaka Ono |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Layer-Aware Native Quantization for Compact Machine Translation: A WMT26 English-to-Chinese Submission Alonso Palomino |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Tiny Titans at WMT26: Task-Calibrated Quantization and Activation-Aware Low-Rank Compression of Gemma 3 12B Vania Raya-Rios, Aleksandr Klimchuk, Nicolas M. Cuadrado Avila, Ivo Gollini Navarrete, Samuel Horvath, Martin Takác |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Vicomtech@WMT 2026: Mask-based Pruning for Model Compression David Ponce, Thierry Etchegoyhen |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | The ILSP/ARC submission to the WMT26 Model Compression Task Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | FBK’s Submission to WMT26 Model Compression Task: Improving Inference Speed for Quantized Models Dhairya Suman, Luisa Bentivogli |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 4: Research Papers Boaster Talks |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Efficient Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Corpus-Driven Vocabulary Pruning: An English-Arabic Case Study. Ahmed Amine Aliane, Nasredine Semmar, Hassina Aliane |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | TACTICS: Taxonomy-Aware Intelligent Corpus Sampling for Machine Translation Prasanth Bathala, Anubhav Shrimal, Sukhdeep Singh Kharbhanda, Pradyumna Lanka, Rohit Dhaipule |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Synthetic Slang Generation for Benchmarking Machine Translation Eric R. Bennett |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | The Constitution Speaks Nheengatu: An Open MT System and Reproducible Corpus Pipeline for the Amazonian Língua Geral Fabrício Carraro, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, Rodrigo Gonçalves de Souza, Caio Henrique Faustino da Silva, John E. Ortega |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | ChakmaNMT: Machine Translation for a Low-Resource and Endangered Language via Transliteration Aunabil Chakma, Aditya Chakma, Masum Hasan, Soham Khisa, Chumui Tripura, Rifat Shahriyar |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | TermJudge: A Document-Level Metric Judging, Not Counting, Terminology in Machine Translation Evaluation Nicolas Dahan, François Yvon, Rachel Bawden |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | BaatCheet: A Multilingual Corpus for Dialogue Translation in Indian Languages Priyanka Dasari, Yuvrajsinh D. Bodana, Vandan Vasantlal Mujadia, Arafat Ahsan, Dipti Misra Sharma, Parameswari Krishnamurthy |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | StalePO: Anchored Token-Level Preference Optimization using Legacy Post-Edits in Machine Translation Rohit Dhaipule, Sukhdeep Singh Kharbanda, Prasanth Bathala, Pradyumna Lanka, Anubhav Shrimal |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Balancing Global Quality and Pronoun-Specific Feedback for Context-Aware Machine Translation Harshit Dhankhar, Baban Gain, Asif Ekbal, Yogesh Mani Tripathi |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Compact Models for Machine Translation in the Bioinformatics Domain: Synthetic Data, Domain Adaptation, and Expert Evaluation Jurgi Giraud, Andrew Gargett |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | ChainAlign: Cross-Lingual Sentence Alignment via Sparse Co-linear Chaining Owen Nicholas Goldner, Connor Casey Gramazio |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | LocQE: Principled Domain Adaptation for Localisation Quality Estimation by Leveraging Post-Edits Kathy Haemmerl, Gabriel Bretschner, Joern Wuebker |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Low-resource machine translation using a general-purpose LLM informed by a dedicated NMT model and lexical resources: A case study on Ainu–Japanese translation Nagito Hara, Karol Nowakowski, Michal Ptaszynski, Lloyd Nicholas Overacker, Masahiro Toyoura |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | SNAPP: Segment-Level Neural Alignment Post-Processing for Low-Resource Parallel Sentence Mining Niklas Hettich, Shu Okabe, Alexander Fraser |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Dynamic Lagging using Stable-Prefix Training for Simultaneous Translation Hieu Hoang, Amittai Axelrod, Matt Post |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Evaluating Pragmatic Appropriateness in English–Vietnamese Machine Translation with Dyadic Profiles Zheng-Yu Huang, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Which Metric for Which Script? A Quantified Meta-Evaluation of Automatic Metrics and LLM Judges for Low-Resource Indic Machine Translation Rudali Huidrom, Vikas Kumar, Hoomexsun Pangsatabam, Pinaki Das, Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Anand Konjengbam |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Align, Integrate, and Fire: Efficient Token-Level Alignment for Zero-Shot SpeechLLMs Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes, Gerasimos Spanakis |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | IndicQE-APE: A Consolidated Benchmark for Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-Editing over Indic Languages Diptesh Kanojia, Archchana Sindhujan, Sourabh Dattatray Deoghare, Daria Sokova, Shenbin Qian, Girish Koushik, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orasan, Chrysoula Zerva, Ricardo Rei, Frederic Blain, André Martins, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Mitesh M. Khapra, Pushpak Bhattacharyya |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Text-Only vs. Image-Aware VLM Judges for Manga Translation Evaluation Subaru Kimura, Jun Suzuki |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | From Error Detection to Credit Assignment: Do xCOMET Error Spans Provide Useful Policy Credit for Chinese–Malay Translation? Zi Chen Koo |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Translationese as a Rational Response to Translation Task Difficulty Maria Kunilovskaya |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | RT-SFT: Text Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Corpora by Roundtrip Translation Ruoxi Liu, Philipp Koehn |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Multilingual Reasoning Cascades Need More Context Arnav Mazumder, Dengjia Zhang, Shuyue Stella Li, Yulia Tsvetkov, Niyati Bafna |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Lost in Mimicry: Verified Training-Free Post-Editing for LLM Translationese Dongwon Noh, Donghyeok Koh, Yeon-Soo Lim, Seohyeong Jeong, Yunsu Kim, Gyuwan Kim, SooJong Do, JinYeong Bak, Sugyeong Eo, Cheoneum Park |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | MITRA-MT: Continued Pretraining, Parallel Corpus Mining, and Multi-Directional Machine Translation for Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Buddhist Chinese Sebastian Nehrdich, Kurt Keutzer |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Mitrasamgraha: A Comprehensive Classical Sanskrit Machine Translation Dataset Sebastian Nehrdich, David Allport, Jivnesh Sandhan, Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan, Sujeet Kumar, Sven Sellmer, Pawan Goyal, Kurt Keutzer |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | LAND: Learning an Adaptive Number of Draws for Bayesian Best-of-N Selection Koen Oostermeijer, Teryn Jones |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | How many raters do we need to recognize a bad translation via perplexity? Antonín Otmar, Ondřej Bojar |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Comparing Machine and Human Simultaneous Interpreting Dongpeng PAN, Kilian G. Seeber |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | An Analysis of Source-Side Diversity in Machine Translation Evaluation Esther Ploeger, Johannes Bjerva, Dong Nguyen, Robert Östling |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | TransClean: A Benchmark for Detecting and Extracting Clean Translations from Large Language Model Outputs Shenbin Qian, Yves Scherrer |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Unlocking Reasoning Capability on Machine Translation in Large Language Models Sara Rajaee, Sebastian Vincent, Alexandre Berard, Marzieh Fadaee, Kelly Marchisio, Tom Kocmi |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Making COMET Comparable Across Scripts: Diagnosis and Correction of Tokeniser-Induced Script Bias in Indic MT Evaluation G.L. John Salvin, Swapnil Hingmire |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Fine-Tuning LLMs for Translation: General Forgetting Mitigation Does Not Preserve MT-Specific Instruction Following Niklas Scholz, David Thulke, Abdallah Nasir, Will Allred, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | AQI: a composite human-calibrated metric for machine translation quality assessment Anastasiya Serdioukova, Denis Zhilko |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Mind Which Bird You Favour: Parameterizing Adequacy-Fluency Balance in Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation Behzad Shayegh, Niloofar Kazemi |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | In-Context Learning for Upper Sorbian to German Translation: Comparing Lexical and Morpho-Syntactic Information Qimin Sheng, Marion Di Marco, Alexander Fraser |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Retrieval-Augmented Terminology Translation for English-Russian: A Multi-Domain Study Maria Sukhareva, Ekaterina Enikeeva |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Obligatory Slots: Under Reference-Free Evaluation, Dropping a Distinction the Source Never Made Is Free Luxshan Thavarasa, Jubeerathan Thevakumar, Sivasuthan Sukumar |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | AmanaMT: Translation Direction Predicts Automatic Metric Reliability Isaac Thompson |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | ImgMT: Wikipedia-based Dataset For Evaluating Text-in-Image Translation Šárka Uramová, Petar Kirilov Petrov, Josef Jon, Ondřej Bojar, Michal Novák |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Doc2FRC: Length-Consistent Document-Level Machine Translation via Fixed-Range Chunking Xiaotian Wang, Youyuan Lin, Zhan Shen, Hitomi Yanaka |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Learning from Many Voices: Literary MT Using Multi-Reference Human and Synthetic Data Si Wu, John Wieting, David A. Smith |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Studying quantization trade-offs for efficient inference deployment in machine translation Jim Zhao, Sohir Maskey, Koen Oostermeijer, Douglas Orr, Teryn Jones |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Contrastive ESA: Human Evaluation of Multiple Translations at Once Vilem Zouhar, Roman Grundkiewicz, Sara Rajaee, Parker Riley, Rachel Bawden, Philipp Koehn, Marine Carpuat, Tom Kocmi |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session 5: Research Papers Posters |
Day 2
Claude finished the response