@InProceedings{egertonidehen:2026:wmt,
  author    = {Egerton-Idehen, Asher Uyiosa},
  title     = {SentinelQA: Task-Level Routing and Output Verification for Multilingual Instruction Following},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation},
  month          = {October},
  year           = {2026},
  address        = {Budapest, Hungary},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1924--1931},
  abstract  = {This submission presents Team Sentinel's approach to the WMT26 MIST shared task on multilingual instruction following. Built on Gemma-3-4B-IT, the system allocates its parameter budget across base and fine-tuned models, using a fixed task-level lookup to select between them. A verification layer checks output language, length constraints, repetition, and chat-template artefacts, with retries and repairs to improve output compliance.},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-1.127}
}