This conference builds on a series of annual workshops and conferences on statistical machine translation, going back to 2006:

• the NAACL-2006 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the ACL-2007 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the ACL-2008 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the EACL-2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the ACL-2010 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
• the EMNLP-2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the NAACL-2012 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the ACL-2013 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the ACL-2014 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the EMNLP-2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation,
• the First Conference on Machine Translation (at ACL-2016),
• the Second Conference on Machine Translation (at EMNLP-2017),
• the Third Conference on Machine Translation (at EMNLP-2018).
• the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (at ACL-2019).
• the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (at EMNLP-2020).

IMPORTANT DATES

OVERVIEW

This year's conference will feature the following shared tasks:

• a news translation task,
• a biomedical translation task,
• a similar language translation task,
• an unsupervised and very low resource translation task,
• an automatic post-editing task,
• a metrics task (assess MT quality with or without reference translation),
• a quality estimation task (assess MT quality without access to any reference),
• an MT efficiency task,
• an MT using terminologies task,
• a lifelong learning in MT task,
• a chat translation task,
• a triangual MT task,
• a large-scale multilingual MT task,
• a multilingual low-resource translation task for Indo-European languages,
• a lifelong learning in MT task.

In addition to the shared tasks, the conference will also feature scientific papers on topics related to MT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• 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

REGISTRATION AND VISA INFORMATION

SHARED TASKS

WMT has a number of MT-related shared tasks. Please consult the links at the top of the page for more details.

PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

WMT accepts two types of submissions: research papers and system papers. Both types of papers are submitted electronically, have the same deadlines, and should follow EMNLP2021 formatting guidelines. WMT will participate in the ACL Rolling Review and any paper submitted to ARR by July 15th can be considered for publication in WMT.

Research Papers

Research papers should describe original research corresponding to the categories listed above. Research papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at WMT 2021. We will not accept for publication papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that have been or will be published elsewhere. It is acceptable to submit work that has been made available as a technical report (or similar, e.g. in arXiv) without citing it. For the research track, papers should be anonymised, be between 6 and 10 pages in length (excluding references) and may include supplementary material.

We encourage individuals who are submitting research papers to evaluate their approaches using the training resources provided by this conference and past workshops, so that their experiments can be repeated by others using these publicly available corpora.

System Papers

System papers must describe one or more shared task submissions. System paper submissions that we cannot link to a shared task submission will be rejected without review. System papers can overlap with other published work, and do not have to follow the double submission policy. There is no maximum length for system papers, but normally a short paper (4-6 pages) is appropriate. System papers should not be anonymised.

POSTER FORMAT

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ORGANIZERS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY

WMT follows the ACL's anti-harassment policy

CONTACT

For general questions, comments, etc. please send email to bhaddow@ed.ac.uk.
For task-specific questions, please contact the relevant organisers.