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The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
ACL – 23rd IWSLT 2026 – First Call for Participation
July 3-4, 2026 - San Diego, CA, USA
http://iwslt.org
The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the
premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation.
Every year, the conference organises and sponsors open evaluation campaigns
around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under
real-time/low-latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or
multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from
participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic
advances and best practices are presented.
IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken
Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 22
years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all
researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related
fields.
The 23rd edition of IWSLT will be run as an ELRA/ACL event and co-located
with ACL 202 <https://2026.aclweb.org/>6 on July 3-4, 2026. It will be run
as a hybrid event.
Important Dates
January 1, 2026: Release of shared task training and dev data
March 15, 2026: Scientific paper submission deadline
Apr 1-15, 2026: Evaluation period
April 24, 2026: System description paper submission deadline
May 15, 2026: Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2026: Camera-ready deadline (all papers)
July 3-4, 2026: IWSLT conference
Evaluation
The IWSLT 2026 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2026/#shared-tasks>
that address the following focus areas:
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Speech to Text Translation track: Offline, Low-resource
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Customized Speech Translation track: Compression, Subtitling,
Simultaneous
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Speech Generation track: Indic S2S, African S2S, Cross-lingual Voice
Cloning
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Instruction Following track
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Speech Translation Metrics track
Training and development data for each shared task will be prepared and
released by the respective organisers (for further information on this
initiative, please refer to the website). Participants will receive
instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have
the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be
published in the ACL Proceedings.
Conference
IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the
ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The
conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and
practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and
applications. Submissions will be accepted directly through the IWSLT
submission site (to be announced at the conference website
<https://iwslt.org/2026/>). We will also accept commitments of submissions
with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review.
Additionally, to foster cross-pollination of ideas, the conference also
invites the presentation of papers on speech translation recently published
elsewhere. Please note that this is for non-archival presentation of papers
relevant to speech translation already published in other venues (e.g., ACL
2026 Findings papers, speech, NLP or MT conferences). Submissions for this
category will be accepted through a dedicated form (to be announced at
the conference
website <https://iwslt.org/2026/>). Papers will be checked for relevance to
IWSLT and assigned either oral or poster presentation slots if selected.
Contact
Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you
have any questions related to the shared tasks.
Thanks,
Marcello, Alex, Antonios, Luisa, Matteo, Jan, Sebastian, Marco Elizabeth,
Atul
(IWSLT organisers)
International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026)
Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-27 June 2026
Fifth Call for Papers
# The conference
The third edition of the International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Interpreting Technology’ (NeTTIT’2026) will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 24 to 27 June 2026.
The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTIT’2026 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures.
The conference will include plenary presentations (research and user presentations, keynote speeches), poster sessions and panel discussions. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts, and the accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e- proceedings which will be available at the time of the conference.
# Conference topics
Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in translation, subtitling, localisation, interpreting, machine translation and Large Language Models used in translation and interpreting.
NeTTIT’2026 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI".
The conference topics include but are not limited to (see also the special conference theme below):
## CAT tools
- Translation Memory (TM) systems
- NLP and MT for translation memory systems
- Terminology extraction tools
- Localisation tools
## Machine Translation
- Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation
- MT for under-resourced languages
- MT with low computing resources
- Multimodal MT
- Integration of MT in TM systems
- Resources for MT
## Technologies for MT deployment
- MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results
- Human evaluations of MT output
- Evaluating MT in a real-world setting
- Quality estimation for MT
- Domain adaptation
## Translation Studies
- Corpus-based studies applied to translation
- Corpora and resources for translation
- Translationese
- Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation
## Interpreting studies
- Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting
- Corpora and resources for interpreting
- Interpretese
- Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications
- Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting
## Interpreting technology
- Machine interpreting
- Computer-aided interpreting
- NLP for dialogue interpreting
- Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services)
## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting
- MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts
- MT for social media and real-time conversations
- Sign language recognition and translation
## Subtitling
- NLP and MT for subtitling
- Latest technology for subtitling
## User needs
- Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology
- User requirements for interpreting and translation tools
- Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology
- What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer
- User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters
- Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed
## The business of translation and interpreting
- Translation workflow and management
- Technology adoption by translators and industry
- Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company
## Teaching translation and interpreting
- Teaching Machine Translation
- Teaching translation technology
- Teaching interpreting technology
- Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula
## Ethical issues in translation and technology
- Bias and fairness in MT
- Privacy and security in cloud MT systems
- Transparency and explainability of MT systems
- Environmental impact on MT systems
# Special Theme Track - Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI
We are excited to share that NeTTIT’2026 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technologies. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency.
The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Changes in (and the impact on) the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMs and Generative AI
- Generative AI and translation
- Generative AI and interpreting
- Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI
- Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models
- Literary translation with Large Language Models
- Translation for low-resourced and minority languages with LLMs
- Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models
- Prompt engineering for translation
- Generative AI for professional translation
- Generative AI for professional interpreting
# Invited speakers
Yves Champollion, Wordfast LLC
Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute
# Submissions and publication
NeTTIT’2026 invites the following types of submissions in English:
## Academic papers
- Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.
- Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, work-in-progress, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.
## User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 2 and 4 pages.
Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/nettit2026/user/
For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the ACL format using the templates available on the conference website. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only.
Further details on the submission procedure are available on the conference website: https://nettt-conference.com/2026/submissions-and-publication/
The accepted papers will be published in the conference e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI and made available online on the conference website at the time of the conference. The conference organisers will seek the inclusion of the conference proceedings in the ACL anthology.
# Important dates
- Submissions due: 23 March 2026
- Reviewing process: 25 March-25 April 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 28 April 2026
- Camera-ready due: 25 May 2026
- Conference camera-ready proceedings ready 15 June 2026
- Conference: 24-27 June 2026
# Pre-conference Tutorials
The pre-conference tutorials will include:
Post-editing and AI-augmented translation – Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia)
Machine Translation Quality Evaluation – Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
Automatic Speech Recognition as a supporting tool for interpreters – Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
# Conference Chairs
- Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga)
- Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University and University of Alicante)
- Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb)
# Programme Committee Chairs
- Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
- Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
# Publication Chairs
- Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia)
- Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante)
# Organising Committee and Programme Committee coordination
- Marie Escribe (LanguageWire and Polytechnic University of Valencia)
- Alicia Picazo Izquierdo (University of Alicante)
- Xiaojing Zhao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
# Publicity and Sponsorship Chair
- Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University)
# Programme committee
For a list of the programme committee members visit:
https://nettt-conference.com/2026/programme-committee/
# Venue
The conference will take place at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS) of the University of Zagreb (http://www.caas.unizg.hr/) in Dubrovnik.
# Sponsor
Juremy.com
# Sponsorship opportunities
Companies working in the fields of translation technology, interpreting technology and/or related fields, are welcome to familiarise themselves with the sponsorship opportunities that the conference offers. Please visit https://nettt-conference.com/2026/sponsors/ for more details.
# Further information and contact details
The conference website https://nettt-conference.com/ is updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email nettit2026(a)nettt-conference.com<mailto:nettit2026@nettt-conference.com>.
You can also follow us on social media for updates and announcements.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nettit2026/
Twitter/X - https://x.com/NeTTIT2026
Best Regards
Tharindu Ranasinghe
ComputEL-9: Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the
Study of Endangered Languages
Second CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission deadline: March 20, 2026
Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026
ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. It
will be a one-day workshop, held in Friday July 4, 2026. This time, we
are co-ordinating our activities with Americas-NLP, held on the previous
day.
We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of
computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based
efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes
submissions that:
(i) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications
focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages,
(ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from
low-resource languages, or demonstrate new methods for analysis of such
data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization,
(iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and
mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to
e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols,
(iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among
computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities.
IMPORTANT DATES
20 March 2026 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts
1 May 2026 Notification of Acceptance
4 July 2026 Workshop
PRESENTATIONS
Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral session and a
poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will
be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the
advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter
and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster
presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings.
SUBMISSIONS
We offer two submissions lengths: short (up to 4 pages) or long (up to 8
pages) paper. The length of submission does not influence the likelihood
of acceptance. Both paper types must include a section on ethical
consideration and a section on limitations; these sections are not
considered part of the page limit.
All submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by the
scientific Program Committee. Papers must follow the style and
formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template
files for LaTeX: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files).
Submissions that exceed the length requirements, or are missing a
limitations section, will be desk rejected.
Papers can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language
community perspective and (b) academic perspective.
Submissions must be uploaded to SoftConf:
https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 by March 20, 2026 11:59PM
(UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”).
A. Short Papers:
Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work.
They are max. 4 pages excluding references. They must include a section
on ethical consideration and limitations; these sections are not
considered part of the page limit. Please note that a short paper is not
a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a small,
focused contribution or describe work in progress (“working paper”).
Short papers might not necessarily be intended for publication. Some
common kinds of short papers are negative results, opinion pieces,
interesting application nuggets, or descriptions of ongoing
collaborative teamwork.
B. Long Paper:
Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and
unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis
should be included. Long papers are max. 8 pages excluding references
and appendices. They must include a section on ethical consideration and
limitations; these sections are not considered part of the page limit.
PROCEEDINGS
The Organizing Committee will select papers that have been accepted for
presentation for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology.
Not all accepted papers for presentation are guaranteed inclusion in the
Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers that are accepted for
publication will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9
pages) excluding references. Papers accepted for inclusion in the
Anthology should be revised and improved versions of the work that was
submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern
responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and
clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content.
FUNDING SUPPORT
Limited funding will be available for some accepted authors. A link to
apply for funding will be sent to submitters after the submission
deadline. Decisions on funding will be sent with notification of
acceptance. Priority will be given to individuals without institutional
support, for instance members of endangered language communities, other
unsponsored or under-sponsored presenters (e.g. student/faculty of
Linguistics Departments), and student presenters.
ADDITIONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Please see the ComputEL-9 website for further information:
https://computel-workshop.org/computel-9/
Organizing Committee Email: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com
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Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering)
Professor of Quantitative Linguistics
Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab)
Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C)
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
Algonquian Studies Association - Secretary-Treasurer
E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca - antti.arppe(a)iki.fi
WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe - altlab.ualberta.ca - 21c.tools
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