Dear All,

We are pleased to inform you that we are hosting the "*Shared Task on Low-Resource Indic Language Translation*" again this year as part of the Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2026). Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition (INDIC MT Task - WMT 2025, WMT 2024 and WMT 2023), we are excited to continue this important initiative, especially in North Eastern Languages. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages.

The WMT 2026 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as *Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, and Kokborok*. In addition, WMT 2026 introduces three new languages to the shared task: *Karbi, Tagin, Nagamese and Mishing*.

Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link:

Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt26/indic-mt-task.html.

We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding the release dates of data and other relevant information periodically

To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here:

Link: https://forms.gle/VfADz8BA3sASbNqu5

For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt@gmail.com.

Thanks & Regards, Dr. Partha Pakray *WMT - Indic Task Organizers, 2026*