EAMT 2026: Bursaries for attendees with disabilities EAMT conference

EAMT 2026: Bursaries for attendees with disabilities

Call for Participation

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, and to promote inclusivity in our community, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support attendees with disabilities, in attending the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2026) being held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from June 15th to June 18th 2026.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support MT students, researchers or translators with disabilities in best participating at the EAMT 2026 conference. It covers support like the hire of sign language interpreters or guides for blind people. It does not cover registration or accommodation costs and it is dedicated to participants working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a researcher, student or translator working in the field of Machine Translation, with a diagnosed disability. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2026 conference and explain why you need EAMT support (e.g. hiring sign language interpreters, hiring a guide for a blind person, support the transport of service dogs, etc). Please note that this bursary does not cover registration or accommodation costs.
  • You should also add the estimated cost for the support (if known).
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience and your experience working with MT.
  • For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University.
  • Please DO NOT add medical documents.
  • Please note that the support needed can be tailored to your specific disability. Therefore, you can apply with your proposal.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 8th of May 2026. The level of support will be decided based on your request and associated costs. EAMT anticipates that it may partially fund bursaries.

Contact for enquiries

Carolina Scarton

EAMT EC member

e-mail: c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/oX4KLUjUg4NeEjQN9

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: April 23rd, 2026
  • Submission deadline for applications: May 4th, 2026, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: May 8th, 2026

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

EAMT 2026: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones EAMT conference

EAMT 2026: Support for participants from low-income countries and…

Call for Participation

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support EAMT 2026 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2026) will be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from June 15th to June 18th 2026.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support EAMT 2026 attendees who do not have funds to attend the conference, from areas affected by war or low-income countries in Europe, the Middle East or Africa.

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early career researchers.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a student or an employee of an institution located in areas affected by war or in low-income countries in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, that would not be able to attend the conference without this support. Students and early-career researchers/academics will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2026 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the MT area.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on 8th of May 2026 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2026, free registration for the full EAMT 2026 conference (including the workshop day) and paid accommodation in Tilburg.

Contact for enquiries

Carolina Scarton

EAMT EC member

e-mail: c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/8y96ZMC1iEqJBCMv7

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: April 23rd, 2026
  • Submission deadline for applications: May 4th, 2026, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: May 8th, 2026

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

EAMT 2026: Bursaries for Translators EAMT conference

EAMT 2026: Bursaries for Translators

Call for Participation

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies’ students. The 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT2026) will be held in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from June 15th to June 18th 2026.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support translators and Translation Studies’ students, working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries, who do not have funds to attend the conference.

The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early-career translators, freelance translators, and students.

All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members.

Application information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a professional translator or enrolled in a Master or PhD course in Translation Studies. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. Priority will be given to early-career translators, freelance translators, and students, as well as to applicants with accepted papers at the main conference.

Selection criteria

  • The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below).
  • One of the fields in the form is a “motivation letter”, where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2026 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance.
  • You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the translation area and your experience working with MT.
  • For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University.

Bursaries

EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on 8th of May 2026 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2026, free registration for the full EAMT 2026 conference (including the workshop day) and paid accommodation in Tilburg.

Contact for enquiries

Carolina Scarton

EAMT EC member

e-mail: c.scarton@sheffield.ac.uk

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/UPDrPvt1qbLpoUxw6

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: April 23rd, 2026
  • Submission deadline for applications: May 4th, 2026, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: May 8th, 2026

Additional provisions

  • Only complete applications will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call.

No obligation to award the bursaries

The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries.

2025 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement EAMT best thesis award

2025 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best…

Four PhD theses defended in 2025 were received as candidates for this year’s edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award, all of which were eligible. Four external reviewers were recruited to examine and score the theses alongside seven EAMT executive committee members. Each thesis was evaluated according to predefined criteria: how challenging the topic was, how relevant the results were to the MT field and the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications. As in previous years, 2025 was another strong year for PhD theses in machine translation, and the decision was incredibly tricky this year, with very little between the submissions.

All PhD theses were of very good quality, focused on interesting topics and were all highly appreciated by reviewers. A panel of two EAMT Executive Committee members (Barry Haddow and Rachel Bawden) was assembled to process the reviews and select a winner that was later ratified by the EAMT executive committee.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award is Gabriele Sarti (PhD carried out at the University of Groningen, currently at Northeastern University), “From Insight to Impact: Actionable Interpretability for Neural Machine Translation”, supervised by Arianna Bisazza, Malvina Nissim and Grzegorz Chrupała.

In addition, the committee judged that the thesis of David Stap (PhD carried out at the University of Amsterdam, currently at NXAI) entitled “Analyzing and Improving Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer for Machine Translation”, supervised by Christof Monz and Vlad Niculae was “highly commended”.

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Sarti will present a summary of their thesis at the EAMT 2026 in Tilburg, the Netherlands, receive complimentary membership to the EAMT in 2027 and will receive a travel bursary of €200.

Chairs of the Best Thesis Award 2025

Rachel Bawden, Inria, Paris, France

Barry Haddow, Aveni 

Programme committee

Lexi Birch, University of Edinburgh

Patrick Cadwell, Dublin City University

Miquel Esplà Gomis, Universidad de Alicante 

Mikel Forcada, Prompsit

Lieve Macken, Ghent University  

André Martins, TransPerfect and Instituto Superior Técnico

Mary Nurminen, Tampere University

Carolina Scarton, University of Sheffield

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich

Dimitar Shterionov, Tilburg University

Marcely Zanon Boito, Naver Labs

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2025 EAMT Best Thesis EAMT best thesis award

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2025 EAMT…

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

The EAMT invites entries for its fourteenth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.

Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award.

Eligibility

Researchers who

  • have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern institution within the calendar year 2025,
  • have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and
  • are members of the EAMT at the time of submission

are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration.

Panel

The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.

Selection criteria

Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.

Scope

The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research on commercial and management aspects of machine translation.

Possible areas of research include:

  • development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
  • machine translation for less-resourced languages
  • the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies and professions outside of the language industry)
  • the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
  • spoken language translation
  • the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
  • the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
  • the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies
  • multilingual language technologies, including with large language models

Prize

The winner will be announced in March 2026 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2026 to be held from 15th to 18th June 2026 in Tilburg, the Netherlands (https://eamt2026.org/). In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2027.

Submission

Candidates will submit, using EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=eamt20252026calls) a single PDF file containing:

  • a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
    • your full contact details,
    • the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
    • the main aspects of your work, namely goal/objectives, methodology and results.
  • a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
  • an electronic copy of your thesis
  • optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis

By submitting their work, authors

  • agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation “The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2025 EAMT Best Thesis” and
  • acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicise the granting of the award.

For this year’s Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: https://eamt.org/101-2.

Closing date

  • Submission deadline: 30/01/2026, 23:59 CET.
  • Award notification: March 2026.
Would you like to host EAMT 2027? EAMT conference

Would you like to host EAMT 2027?

Have you ever got to wondering during EAMT conferences what it would be like to host one at your own site? The organizers always seem very busy, but they are also clearly enjoying themselves. I can tell you from experience that it is an often crazy, sometimes daunting, but most of all exhilirating adventure.

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) has now opened the bidding for the site of the EAMT 2027 conference. The first step is an expression of interest, in which we ask you to gather the first members of a local planning team, do some research on what a conference on your site would look like, and send us the information.

We will evaluate the expressions of interest and then select a shortlist of potential sites. If selected, we will then work with you to create a final bid with a full proposal and budget. At the end of January we make the final selection for the conference.

The right location will be in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA), will be able to host a conference of 200+ participants for 4 days during May-June 2027, and will have an active and enthusiastic group to act as the local planning team.

Expressions of interest are free-form documents that outline your ideas for a conference. They should include the following:

Information on the proposed site and conference facilities

  • Location: city
  • Proposed conference venue (university, hotel or convention centre).
    • EAMT has been growing and the last 2 conferences had 190 participants, so the suggested location needs to accommodate 200+ people for the main conference sessions plus room for registration, a large poster or exhibit room, and at least 4 conference rooms for hosting parallel workshops and tutorials on the last day (about 100 people each).
    • Computing & audiovisual facilities at the venue

Proposed conference dates

  • It should take place during May – June 2027
  • 3 days main conference + 1 day for workshops and tutorials
  • Choose dates that do not clash with other machine translation or translation studies events that might involve the same types of participants.

Catering and social events

  • Conference catering includes 2 coffee breaks + lunch for all conference days. Include a description of the service provider and their estimate of the cost per day per attendee
  • Each conference has a welcome reception on one evening and a conference dinner on another. Provide us with a description of your ideas for each along with a rough cost estimate.

Local planning team

  • Tell us what kind of team you will put together for your planning. Name the chair (or why not 2 co-chairs?) of the planning team and at least 3 other members.
  • Indicate whether any national or regional computational linguistics or translation studies associations would be on the team
  • Is it possible to have student volunteers during the conference? Include information on that.

About the cost estimates

A finalised budget is not expected at this stage, but we would like to see well-researched estimates with some level of detail on all requested estimates.

The schedule for the bidding process is:

  • December 1st, 2025: Bids submission deadline
  • December 15th , 2025: Shortlist and feedback to bidders
  • January 15th, 2026: Final bids due
  • January 30th, 2026: Final bid chosen

EAMT president Helena Moniz will serve as the conference’s General Chair and will collaborate with the local arrangements team to shape the conference.

Please send your expressions of interest to:

Do you have any questions? We’d love to hear them! Send us a mail.

2024 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement EAMT best thesis award

2024 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best…

Six PhD theses defended in 2024 were received as candidates for the 2024 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award, and all of which were eligible. 8 reviewers were recruited to examine and score the theses, considering how challenging the problem tackled in each thesis was, how relevant the results were for machine translation as a field, and what the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications was. Two EAMT Executive Committee members also analysed all theses. It became very clear that 2024 was another very good year for PhD theses in machine translation.

All theses had merit, all candidates had strong CVs and, therefore, it was very difficult to select a winner.

A panel of two EAMT Executive Committee members (Barry Haddow and Rachel Bawden) was assembled to process the reviews and select a winner that was later ratified by the EAMT executive committee.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award is Ricardo Rei’s thesis “Robust, Interpretable and Efficient MT Evaluation with Fine-tuned Metrics” (Unbabel, Portugal), supervised by Dr Maria Luísa Torres Ribeiro Marques da Silva Coheur and Dr.  Alon Lavie.

In addition, the committee judged  that the following thesis, was “highly commended”:

  • Sara Papi: “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: the Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios” (FBK, Italy), supervised by Dr. Marco Turchi and Dr. Matteo Negri

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Rei will present a summary of their thesis at the 20th Machine Translation Summit (Mt Summit 2025: https://mtsummit2025.unige.ch/) which will take place from June 23th to 27th in Geneva, Switzerland.  In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200.

Barry Haddow, chair, EAMT BTA award 2024

Rachel Bawden, chair, EAMT BTA award 2024

Program committee

Marine Carpuat, University of Maryland

Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Universidad de Alicante

Mikel Forcada, Prompsit

Philipp Koehn, Johns Hopkins University

Mary Nurminen, Tampere University

Matt Post, Microsoft

Danielle Saunders, DeepL

Carolina Scarton, University of Sheffield

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich

Sara Szoc, Crosslang

Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki

François Yvon, CNRS

Marcely Zanon-Boito, Naver Labs

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2024 EAMT Best Thesis EAMT best thesis award

The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2024 EAMT…

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.

The EAMT invites entries for its thirteenth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.

Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award/.

Eligibility

Researchers who

  • have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern[1] institution within calendar year 2024,
  • have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and,
  • are members of the EAMT at the time of submission,

are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration.

[1] Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Panel

The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.

Selection criteria

Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.

Scope

The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.

Possible areas of research include:

  • development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
  • machine translation for less-resourced languages
  • the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, and professionals outside of the language industry)
  • the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
  • spoken language translation
  • the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
  • the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
  • the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies
  • multilingual language technologies, including with large language models

Prize

The winner will be announced in March 2025 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at MT Summit 2025 to be held from 23th to 27th June 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland (https://mtsummit2025.unige.ch). In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2026.

Submission

Candidates will submit, using EasyChair

(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2025bta), a single PDF file containing:

  • a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
    • your full contact details,
    • the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
    • the main aspects of your work, namely goal/objectives, methodology and results.
  • a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
  • an electronic copy of your thesis
  • optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis

By submitting their work, authors

  • agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation “The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2024 EAMT Best Thesis” and
  • acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award.

For this year’s Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: https://eamt.org/101-2/.

Closing date

  • Submission deadline: January 31, 2025, 23:59 CET.
  • Award notification: March 2025.

EAMT 2026: CALL FOR BIDS EAMT conference

EAMT 2026: CALL FOR BIDS

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites expressions of interest to host the EAMT 2026 conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) between May-June 2026. This will be the 26th EAMT conference. 

At this stage, we are seeking draft proposals from prospective bidders. These will be evaluated and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EAMT president will act as general chair and will work together with local organisers to design and shape the conference, including the appointment of chairs.

Draft proposals (due September 13th, 2024) should include information on all of the following items:

1. Proposed dates: between May – June 2026 (3 days main conference + 1 day for workshops and tutorials)

2. Location: city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention centre. Bear in mind that EAMT is growing: Ghent (EAMT 2022) had around 120 registered participants, Tampere (EAMT 2023) and Sheffield (EAMT 2024) had around 190 registered participants. So please suggest a location that could host 200+ people for the main conference sessions, plus room for registration, a large poster or exhibit room, and at least 4 conference rooms for hosting parallel workshops and tutorials on the last day (about 100 people each).

3. Local arrangements team: local chair/co-chairs, committee (identifying a coordinator to be co-opted as EAMT executive committee member), volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the welcome reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EAMT Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether any national/regional computational linguistics or translation studies association would be on the board of the local organisation

4. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktops/laptops in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are, etc. There should be sufficient sound and microphones that can go around the room for Q&A.

5. Food catering including breaks (two coffee breaks and one lunch break for all days of the conference), reception and conference dinner

6. Social events, including infrastructure for banquet/other social events and welcome reception

7. Potential for sponsorships: local organisers partner with the EAMT EC to engage sponsors and align track chairs and keynotes. Bids should include strategies for outreach, anticipated sponsor tiers, and potential benefits for sponsors.

8. Co-location with other meetings and events: demonstrate that you have researched the dates to avoid clashes with other events and considered opportunities for co-location with other meetings

9. Cost estimates: while a finalised budget is not expected at this stage, it is essential that proposers provide well-researched estimates with some level of detail related to all of the above items. These estimates should be documented in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided by the EAMT upon request).

Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered):

● Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants

● Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities

● Adequacy of expense projections and expected surplus

● Appropriateness of proposed dates

● Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major natural-language processing and translation studies conferences held in EMEA

● Co-location with national/regional conferences

● Experience of the local arrangements team

● Local machine translation and translation studies community support

● Local government and industry support

● Appropriateness of expected registration fees

● Accessibility of proposed site via public transportation

● Alignment with the EAMT ethics statement and policies: https://eamt.org/ethics/

Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EAMT president:

Helena Moniz <<helena.moniz “at” campus.ul.pt>>

The EAMT board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal.

Important Dates:

  • September 13th, 2024 > October 14th, 2024: Bids submission deadline
  • September 20th, 2024 > October 21st, 2024: Shortlist and feedback to bidders
  • September 27th, 2024 > October 28th, 2024: Final bids due
  • October 4th, 2024 > November 4th, 2024: Final bid chosen

2023 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best Thesis: awardee announcement EAMT best thesis award

2023 Anthony C Clarke Award for the EAMT Best…

Nine PhD theses defended in 2023 were received as candidates for the 2022 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award, and all nine were eligible. 20 reviewers were recruited to examine and score the theses, considering how challenging the problem tackled in each thesis was, how relevant the results were for machine translation as a field, and what the strength of its impact in terms of scientific publications was. Two EAMT Executive Committee members also analysed all theses. It became very clear that 2023 was another very good year for PhD theses in machine translation. 

All theses had merit, all candidates had strong CVs and, therefore, it was very difficult to select a winner.

A panel of two EAMT Executive Committee members (Barry Haddow and Helena Moniz) was assembled to process the reviews and select a winner that was later ratified by the EAMT executive committee.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 edition of the EAMT Best Thesis Award is Marco Gaido’s’ thesis “Direct Speech Translation Toward High-Quality, Inclusive, and Augmented Systems” (FBK, Italy), supervised by Dr Marco Turchi and Dr.  Matteo Negri.

In addition, the committee judged  that the following theses, were “highly commended”:

  • Jannis Vamvas: “Model-based Evaluation of Multilinguality” (University of Zurich, Switzerland), supervised by Rico Sennrich and Lena A. Jäger
  • Javier Iranzo-Sánchez: “Streaming Neural Speech Translation” ( UPV, Spain), supervised by Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan 

The awardee will receive a prize of €500, together with a suitably-inscribed certificate. In addition, Dr. Gaido will present a summary of their thesis at the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/) which will take place from June 24th to 27th in Sheffield, UK.  In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner’s registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200.

Barry Haddow, chair, EAMT BTA award 2023

Helena Moniz, EAMT president

Program committee 

Daniel Beck,   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Bram Vanroy,   KU Leuven

Philipp Koehn,  Johns Hopkins University

Danielle Saunders,  DeepL

Alexandra Birch,  University of Edinburgh

Felix Stahlberg,  Google

Bill Byrne,   Amazon

Sheila Castilho,  Dublin City University

John E. Ortega,     Northeastern University

Anna Currey,  Amazon

Rachel Bawden,  Inria

Xingyi Song,  University of Sheffield

Miquel Esplà-Gomis,  Universidad de Alicante

Marcello Federico,    Amazon

Antonio Toral, University of Groningen

Diptesh Kanojia,     University of Surrey

José G. C. de Souza,  Unbabel

Mikel L. Forcada,     Universidad de Alicante

Liane Guillou,     University of Edinburgh

Vera Cabarrão,  Unbabel