Dear all,
Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation
WAT 2026: The 13th Workshop on Asian Translation
https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2026/
Co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2026
* Overview
The Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) is an open evaluation campaign
and workshop dedicated to Machine Translation (MT) focusing on Asian
languages, as well as general MT research and related technologies.
We invite two types of submissions:
1. Research Papers (Call for Papers): Original research on machine
translation, natural language processing, and multilingual AI, with a
special emphasis on Asian languages.
2. Shared Task System Descriptions (Call for Participation):
Evaluation tasks designed to benchmark state-of-the-art MT systems
across various Asian language pairs and domains.
* Topics of Interest (Call for Papers)
We welcome high-quality research papers on all aspects of Machine
Translation and Multilingual NLP, including but not limited to:
• Machine translation involving Asian languages (Neural MT, Large
Language Model-based translation, etc.)
• Multilingual representation learning and cross-lingual transfer
• Low-resource and zero-shot machine translation
• Translation evaluation, metrics, and quality estimation
• Domain adaptation, speech translation, and multimodal translation
• Dictionary and parallel/comparable corpus construction
* Shared Tasks (Call for Participation)
WAT 2026 features a variety of shared tasks aimed at advancing MT
technologies. Participants are invited to submit translation outputs
for evaluation and present their system descriptions at the workshop.
For detailed task guidelines, datasets, and evaluation protocols,
please visit the official website:
https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2026/
* Important Dates
(All deadlines are 23:59 AOE - Anywhere on Earth)
• Shared Task Submission Deadline: See each task description page.
• System Description Paper for Shared Tasks Submission Deadline: See
each task description page.
• Research Paper Submission Deadline: September 14, 2026
• Notification of Acceptance for Research Papers: October 1, 2026
• Camera-ready Deadline (both Research and System Description Papers):
October 12, 2026
• Workshop Dates: November 9, 2026
* Organizers & Contact
For inquiries, please visit the website or contact the workshop organizers at:
wat-organizer -at- googlegroups -dot- com (Replace with the official email)
We look forward to your submissions and participation!