@InProceedings{velda-hwang-kim:2026:wmt,
  author    = {Velda, Vania  and  Hwang, Yigyu  and  Kim, Yongho},
  title     = {STRA-MT: Deterministic Terminology Control for Document-Level Machine Translation},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation},
  month          = {October},
  year           = {2026},
  address        = {Budapest, Hungary},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1888--1898},
  abstract  = {STRA-MT is a translation pipeline with deter- ministic terminology control built around small open-weight language models. The pipeline (1) reuses exact repetitions and guides near- duplicates using translations from earlier occur- rences, (2) maintains a growing terminology ledger initialized from either the provided glos- sary or a termbase mined from sample bitext, and (3) verifies every required term and, when one is missing, regenerates the paragraph once with the missing terms named. On the WMT25 zh-Hant→en development sets, STRA-MT im- proves mean terminology success over glossary prompting from 87.3 to 92.4 under the official WMT25 evaluation, while maintaining com- petitive BLEU, chrF++, and COMET scores. Official WMT26 test sets shows that term de- livery on en→pl comes close to the reference ceiling while the translation quality depends on the backbones.},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-1.123}
}