Call for Participation: Terminology Shared Task @WMT2026

Kirill Semenov via Corpora <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2026 10:25:39 +0000
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0, 0, 0);"><b>Terminology Translation Task @WMT2026 =A8C Call for Participa=
tion</b></span></p>
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<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">We are excited to announce the
<b>4th Terminology Translation Shared Task</b>,&nbsp;which will be held as =
part of the
<b>11th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026)</b>,&nbsp;co-located w=
ith <b>EMNLP 2026</b>&nbsp;in
<b>Budapest, Hungary</b>.</span></p>
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0, 0, 0);"><b>TL;DR</b></span></p>
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<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Two tracks on t=
erminology-aware document-level machine translation.</span></li><li style=
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ine-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Language pairs:=
 Spanish=A1=FABasque, English=A1=FAPolish, and Traditional Chinese=A1=FAEng=
lish across engineering, medicine, and finance domains.</span></li><li styl=
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<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Evaluation metr=
ics: both general MT quality and terminology-oriented metrics.</span></li><=
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0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Task started: 3=
0 June 2026</span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-si=
ze: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">System submissi=
on deadline: 31 July 2026 (AoE)</span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos,=
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<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Shared task web=
site: </span>
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sentation"><a href=3D"https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html" data-=
outlook-id=3D"24adeb4a-f7d6-471b-a218-5f122a22a3fc" style=3D"color: rgb(150=
, 96, 125);"><u>https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html</u></a></spa=
n></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color:=
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n: </span>
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sentation"><a href=3D"https://forms.gle/nCHmek9UkdJaraqu9" data-outlook-id=
=3D"46984da4-e015-4a3f-bd06-a3e49403b4bb" style=3D"color: rgb(150, 96, 125)=
;"><u>https://forms.gle/nCHmek9UkdJaraqu9</u></a></span></li></ul>
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0, 0, 0);"><b>OVERVIEW</b></span></p>
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<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Despite remarkable progress in machine translation,&nbsp;accurat=
ely translating specialized terminology while maintaining overall translati=
on quality remains a challenging problem.&nbsp;Previous
 editions of the Terminology Translation Shared Task demonstrated that docu=
ment-level terminology translation is still substantially more difficult th=
an sentence-level translation,&nbsp;particularly when consistent terminolog=
y usage is required throughout a document.</span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">This year's edition introduces two major developments.&nbsp;Firs=
t,&nbsp;we expand the shared task to
<b>lower-resource, morphologically rich languages</b>: <b>Basque</b>&nbsp;a=
nd <b>Polish</b>.&nbsp;Second,&nbsp;alongside our established terminology-d=
ictionary setting,&nbsp;we introduce a new track in which systems must infe=
r terminology from
<b>seed bitexts</b>,&nbsp;providing a more realistic and challenging evalua=
tion scenario.</span></p>
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<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">We welcome submissions from both academia and industry and impos=
e
<b>no restrictions on models or training resources</b>.</span></p>
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0, 0, 0);"><b>IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)</b></span></p>
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<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>1 Jul 2026:<=
/b>&nbsp;Test data and submission form released; shared task begins</span><=
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b(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>31 Jul 2026:=
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margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>7 Aug 2026:<=
/b>&nbsp;paper description submission (according to the WMT 2026 schedule)<=
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lor: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>28-29 Octobe=
r 2026:</b>&nbsp;WMT 2026 conference</span></li></ul>
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0, 0, 0);"><b>SUBMISSION TRACKS</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>Track 1: Document-Level Translation with Explicit Dictionary<=
/b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Participants receive document-level source texts together with t=
erminology dictionaries and evaluate their systems under different terminol=
ogy conditions.</span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>Track 2: Document-Level Translation with Seed Bitexts</b></sp=
an></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Instead of explicit terminology dictionaries,&nbsp;participants =
receive terminology-rich parallel examples&nbsp;(&quot;seed bitexts&quot;)&=
nbsp;and must leverage them to translate related documents.</span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>LANGUAGES AND DOMAINS</b></span></p>
<ul style=3D"text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Spanish =A1=
=FA Basque</b>&nbsp;(Engineering &amp; Technology),</span></li><li style=3D=
"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line=
-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>English =A1=
=FA Polish</b>&nbsp;(Engineering &amp; Technology, Medicine),</span></li><l=
i style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0=
, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Traditional =
Chinese =A1=FA English</b>&nbsp;(Finance)</span></li></ul>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-he=
ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>EVALUATION</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Following the previous editions of the shared task,&nbsp;systems=
 will be evaluated under multiple
<b>terminology modes</b>&nbsp;to assess the causal effect of the explicit t=
erminology contents:</span></p>
<ul style=3D"text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>No terminolo=
gy</b></span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 1=
2pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Proper termi=
nology</b></span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-siz=
e: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Random termi=
nology</b></span></li></ul>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Submissions will be assessed using two complementary groups of m=
etrics:</span></p>
<ul style=3D"text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Overall tran=
slation quality</b>, including automatic MT metrics (e.g., BLEU) together w=
ith evaluation of grammatical term usage.</span></li><li style=3D"font-fami=
ly: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1=
15%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Terminology-=
oriented metrics</b>, including terminology success rate and terminology co=
nsistency.</span></li></ul>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-he=
ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Before submitting,&nbsp;we kindly ask participants to:</span></p=
>
<ol start=3D"1" style=3D"text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: =
0in;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>(Recommended=
) Pre-register</b>&nbsp;using our Google Form to receive reminders and help=
 us estimate participation.</span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, san=
s-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0=
in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Validate sys=
tem outputs</b>&nbsp;using the official validation script.</span></li><li s=
tyle=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0=
); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation"><b>Submit trans=
lations</b>&nbsp;through the official submission form together with a brief=
 system description. Participants are also encouraged to submit a WMT syste=
m description paper following the main conference
 guidelines.</span></li></ol>
<ul style=3D"text-align: left; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0,=
 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">The participant=
s are allowed to submit systems for one track and/or only subset of the lan=
guage pairs (however, we encourage you to test your strengths across all la=
nguage pairs)</span></li><li style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-=
size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"text-transform: none;" role=3D"presentation">Detailed task d=
escriptions, data formats, input/output specifications, and submission inst=
ructions are available on the shared task website.</span></li></ul>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>ORGANIZERS</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">Nathaniel Berger,&nbsp;Adrian Charkiewicz,&nbsp;Pinzhen Chen,&nb=
sp;Thierry Etchegoyhen,&nbsp;Harritxu Gete Ugarte,&nbsp;Kamil Guttmann,&nbs=
p;Xu Huang,&nbsp;David Ponce,&nbsp;Artur Nowakowski,&nbsp;Fr=A8=A6d=A8=A6ri=
c Odermatt,&nbsp;Arturo
 Oncevay,&nbsp;Kirill Semenov,&nbsp;Dawei Zhu,&nbsp;and Vil=A8=A6m Zouhar.<=
/span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>Contact:</b>&nbsp;Kirill Semenov&nbsp;=A1=AA&nbsp;firstname.l=
astname [at] uzh [dot] ch</span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b><br>
</b></span></p>
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ight: 18.4px; text-transform: none; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">
<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);"><b>WEBSITE</b></span></p>
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<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
150, 96, 125);"><a href=3D"https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/terminology.html" =
data-outlook-id=3D"c773ef74-968f-422c-941e-b2056de0b888" style=3D"color: rg=
b(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://www2.stat=
mt.org/wmt26/terminology.html</u></a></span></p>
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<span style=3D"font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(=
0, 0, 0);">We look forward to your participation!</span></p>
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