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 2023, WMT 2024 and WMT 2025), we are excited to continue this important initiative, especially in North East Indian 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 (Last Date: May 5, 2026): Link: https://forms.gle/VfADz8BA3sASbNqu5 PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION WMT accepts two types of submissions: research papers and system papers. Both types of papers are submitted electronically via SoftConf, have the same deadlines, and should follow EMNLP formatting guidelines. You may include a limitations section and ethics statement but they are not required. WMT will participate in the ACL Rolling Review. Any ARR-reviewed paper that received all of its reviews and meta-reviews available by ARR commitment deadline above will be considered for publication at the conference. If you intend to have your ARR-reviewed paper included in WMT. System Papers System papers must describe one or more shared task submissions. System paper submissions that we cannot link to a shared task submission will be rejected without review. System papers can overlap with other published work, and do not have to follow the double submission policy. There is no maximum length for system papers, but normally a short paper (4-6 pages) is appropriate. System papers should not be anonymised. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at [email protected]. Thanks & Regards, Santanu Pal
