37.2259, Confs: Terminology Shared Task @ WMT2026 (Hungary)

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Subject: 37.2259, Confs: Terminology Shared Task @ WMT2026 (Hungary)

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Date: 03-Jul-2026
From: Kirill Semenov [kirill.semenov at uzh.ch]
Subject: Terminology Shared Task @ WMT2026


Terminology Shared Task @ WMT2026

Date: 28-Oct-2026 - 29-Oct-2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Meeting URL: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): Basque (eus, basq1248)
                     Mandarin Chinese (cmn, mand1415)
                     Polish (pol, poli1260)
                     Spanish (spa, stan1288)

Submission Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

We are excited to announce the 4th Terminology Translation Shared
Task, which will be held as part of the 11th Conference on Machine
Translation (WMT 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest,
Hungary.
TL;DR
 - Two tracks on terminology-aware document-level machine translation.
 - Language pairs: Spanish→Basque, English→Polish, and Traditional
Chinese→English across engineering, medicine, and finance domains.
 - Evaluation metrics: both general MT quality and
terminology-oriented metrics.
 - Task started: 30 June 2026
 - System submission deadline: 31 July 2026 (AoE)
 - Shared task website: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html
 - Pre-registration: https://forms.gle/nCHmek9UkdJaraqu9
Overview:
Despite remarkable progress in machine translation, accurately
translating specialized terminology while maintaining overall
translation quality remains a challenging problem. Previous editions
of the Terminology Translation Shared Task demonstrated that
document-level terminology translation is still substantially more
difficult than sentence-level translation, particularly when
consistent terminology usage is required throughout a document.
This year's edition introduces two major developments. First, we
expand the shared task to lower-resource, morphologically rich
languages: Basque and Polish. Second, alongside our established
terminology-dictionary setting, we introduce a new track in which
systems must infer terminology from seed bitexts, providing a more
realistic and challenging evaluation scenario.
We welcome submissions from both academia and industry and impose no
restrictions on models or training resources.
Important Dates (AoE):
1 Jul 2026: Test data and submission form released; shared task begins
31 Jul 2026: System submission deadline
7 Aug 2026: paper description submission (according to the WMT 2026
schedule)
28-29 October 2026: WMT 2026 conference
Submission Tracks:
Track 1: Document-Level Translation with Explicit Dictionary
Participants receive document-level source texts together with
terminology dictionaries and evaluate their systems under different
terminology conditions.
Track 2: Document-Level Translation with Seed Bitexts
Instead of explicit terminology dictionaries, participants receive
terminology-rich parallel examples ("seed bitexts") and must leverage
them to translate related documents.
Languages and Domains:
 - Spanish → Basque (Engineering & Technology),
 - English → Polish (Engineering & Technology, Medicine),
 - Traditional Chinese → English (Finance)
Evaluation:
Following the previous editions of the shared task, systems will be
evaluated under multiple terminology modes to assess the causal effect
of the explicit terminology contents:
 - No terminology
 - Proper terminology
 - Random terminology
Submissions will be assessed using two complementary groups of
metrics:
 - Overall translation quality, including automatic MT metrics (e.g.,
BLEU) together with evaluation of grammatical term usage.
 - Terminology-oriented metrics, including terminology success rate
and terminology consistency.
Submission Guidelines:
Before submitting, we kindly ask participants to:
1. (Recommended) Pre-register using our Google Form to receive
reminders and help us estimate participation.
2. Validate system outputs using the official validation script.
3. Submit translations through the official submission form together
with a brief system description. Participants are also encouraged to
submit a WMT system description paper following the main conference
guidelines.
 - The participants are allowed to submit systems for one track and/or
only subset of the language pairs (however, we encourage you to test
your strengths across all language pairs)
 - Detailed task descriptions, data formats, input/output
specifications, and submission instructions are available on the
shared task website.
Organizers:
Nathaniel Berger, Adrian Charkiewicz, Pinzhen Chen, Thierry
Etchegoyhen, Harritxu Gete Ugarte, Kamil Guttmann, Xu Huang, David
Ponce, Artur Nowakowski, Frédéric Odermatt, Arturo Oncevay, Kirill
Semenov, Dawei Zhu, and Vilém Zouhar.
Contact: Kirill Semenov — firstname.lastname [at] uzh [dot] ch
Website:
https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html



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