EMNLP 2024

NINTH CONFERENCE ON
MACHINE TRANSLATION (WMT24)

November 15-16, 2024
Miami, Florida, USA
 
[HOME] [PROGRAM] [PAPERS] [AUTHORS]
TRANSLATION TASKS: [GENERAL MT (NEWS)] [LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES OF SPAIN] [INDIC MT] [CHAT TASK] [BIOMEDICAL] [MULTIINDIC22MT TASK] [ENGLISH-TO-LOWRES MULTIMODAL MT TASK] [NON-REPETITIVE] [PATENT] [LITERARY]
EVALUATION TASKS: [METRICS TASK] [MT TEST SUITES] [QUALITY ESTIMATION]
OTHER TASKS: [OPEN LANGUAGE DATA INITIATIVE]

IMPORTANT DATES

Evaluation periods for shared tasks

June/July, 2024

Paper submission deadline

20th August

Paper notification

20th September

Camera-ready version due

3rd October

Conference

15-16 November, 2024

All deadlines are in AoE (Anywhere on Earth). Dates are specified with respect to EMNLP 2024.

OVERVIEW AND SHARED TASKS

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

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

We encourage authors to evaluate their approaches to the above topics using the common data sets created for the shared tasks.

PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION

WMT accepts two types of submissions: research papers and system papers. Both types of papers are submitted electronically via SoftConf, have the same deadlines, and should follow EMNLP2023 formatting guidelines. You may include a limitations section and ethics statement but they are not required. WMT will participate in the ACL Rolling Review. Any ARR-reviewed paper that received all of its reviews and meta-reviews available by EMNLP ARR deadline can be committed to WMT and will be considered for publication at the conference.

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have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at WMT 2024. 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 limitations, references, appendices).

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.

Presenting and poster format

System description papers will be presentated as posters. For the in-person poster session, the poster panels are 3.28’ (1m wide) x 8.20’ (2.5m tall). We recommend to have posters that are portrait in orientation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you are participating in any task, please subscribe to the Google groups mailing list for updates. You can also consult the list archives on this page. Note that there have been isues with subscribing to the mailing list in recent years. If you are unable to subscribe, or if your subscription is not approved, please contact Barry Haddow (address at the foot of the page).

REGISTRATION AND VISA INFORMATION

These will both be handled by EMNLP 2024.

You can request a invitation letter from the EMNLP Conference if you need it for the visa application.

ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY

WMT follows the ACL’s anti-harassment policy

PAST CONFERENCES

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

ORGANIZERS

  • Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh)

  • Tom Kocmi (Microsoft)

  • Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Christof Monz (University of Amsterdam)

Invited Talk

Ricardo Rei and Nuno M. Guerreiro (Unbabel)

Program Committee

TBA

Contact

For general questions, comments, etc. please send email to phi@jhu.edu.
For task-specific questions, please contact the relevant organisers.