@InProceedings{garland-berger:2026:wmt,
  author    = {Garland, Evelyn Y.  and  Berger, Carola F.},
  title     = {Pterodactyl: Pushing the Limits of Efficient Automated Translation Evaluation},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation},
  month          = {October},
  year           = {2026},
  address        = {Budapest, Hungary},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1645--1650},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we present 1020 Group's submission to the WMT26 shared task on automated quality evaluation. Our system, Pterodactyl, was engineered specifically for subtasks 2 and 3, that is, segment-level quality score prediction and the detection of error-free segments. Pterodactyl is a highly customizable, ultra-low-cost system optimized for binary classification in translation triage and data curation. It is based on an LLM-as-a-judge approach, with prompt engineering and model selection guided by ROC analysis. We also developed several variants of Pterodactyl that were specifically adapted for subtasks 3.},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-1.96}
}