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 nine were eligible. 13 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

MT Summit 2025: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones Latest

MT Summit 2025: Support for participants from low-income countries…

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 few bursaries to support MT Summit 2025 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 20th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2025) conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 23rd to June 27th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support MT Summit 2025 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 MT Summit 2025 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 18th April 2025 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2025, free registration at the MT Summit 2025 conference and paid accommodation in Geneva.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: saraszocgmail.com

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/Mu6rJhdRwCnzjJSt7

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: March 17th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 4th, 2025, 23:59 CEST April 11th, 2025, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 18th, 2025

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.

MT Summit 2025: Bursaries for Translators Latest

MT Summit 2025: 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 few bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies’ students. The 20th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2025) conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 23rd to June 27th.

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.

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 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. Freelance translators and students 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 Mt Summit 2025 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 18th April 2025 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2025, free registration at the MT Summit 2025 conference and paid accommodation in Geneva.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: saraszocgmail.com

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/iitbUnRDqctatT9p6

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: March 17th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 4th, 2025, 23:59 CEST April 11th, 2025, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 18th, 2025

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.

MT Summit 2025: Bursaries for attendees with disabilities Latest

MT Summit 2025: 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 few bursaries to support attendees with disabilities, in attending the 20th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2025) conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 23rd to June 27th.

Purpose of the Call

This call is dedicated to support potential MT Summit 2025 attendees with disabilities, 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 MT Summit 2025 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).
  • 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 required 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 18th April 2025. 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

Sara Szoc

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: saraszocgmail.com

Applications

Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/msMVcFsK9xXxeUr79

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: March 17th, 2025
  • Submission deadline for applications: April 4th, 2025, 23:59 CEST April 11th, 2025, 23:59 CEST
  • Notification: April 18th, 2025

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 Sponsorship of Activities – Students’ edition – 2024 Latest

EAMT Sponsorship of Activities – Students’ edition – 2024

Call for Proposals 

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 is for the fifth consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities led by students during 2025.

Purpose of the Call

The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as shared tasks, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, dataset creation and small research and development projects by its current student members. 

The EAMT particularly welcomes proposals from students in all levels of education, including undergraduates, postgraduates and PhD students. 

This call will also give priority to projects that extend work done during the Machine Translation Marathon 2024 (https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/mtm24/), held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 2 to 7 September 2024. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Recent developments in MT research.
  • MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results.
  • Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns.
  • New or prospective commercial users of MT technology.
  • MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.).
  • Interaction between users and MT systems.
  • MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.).
  • MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc.
  • MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development.
  • MT for crisis management. 
  • Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments.
  • Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public (including shared tasks).
  • Creation of datasets for MT research.

All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary.

Submission information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for funding, the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed student member of the EAMT at submission time (Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php). Applicants will also need formal approval from their supervisor.

It is important to emphasise that projects are expected to be student-led. Therefore, although we welcome projects showing collaboration with industry and other academic partners, the project is expected to directly benefit the students own career and/or project. 

Selection criteria

  • The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and/or users of MT technologies.
  • The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below).
  • Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops, shared tasks and tutorials.
  • Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted.
  • Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued.
  • The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound.
  • The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated.
  • The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity.

Budget

EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. 

The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €4,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €4,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. 

A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: saraszoc@gmail.com

Submission procedure

Overview

Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below.

  1. Proposal description: 2-page maximum (including references)
  2. Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum
  3. Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum
  4. Supervisor’s letter of approval: 1-page maximum

Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2025projectproposal (Project category: Students). Authors should use the template available at https://eamt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/eamt2024-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available.

Detailed description of sections of the proposal

  1. Proposal summary (two pages) in English
    1. Complete contact information of the candidate.
    2. A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity.
    3. A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community and the development of your studies (you should establish a clear connection between this activity and your degree project). 
    4. A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity.
    5. References.
  2. Experience of the proposing person in the field (up to one page)
    1. It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team (your team may be composed by your supervisors and potential collaborators).
  3. Budget and project planning overview (up to one page)
    1. A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event.
    2. Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated.
    3. An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds.
  4. Supervisor’s letter of approval (up to one page)
    1. A letter from your supervisor stating that they approve your project submission and that they will act as fund manager if needed (please note that EAMT needs to make payments into a research account set up at your institution). 

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: October 21, 2024
  • Submission deadline for proposals: November 18, 2024, 23:59 CEST November 25, 2024, 23:59 CEST
  • Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 16, 2024 December 23, 2024

In case of acceptance:

  • Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2025, 23:59 CEST
  • Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2026, 23:59 CET

Additional provisions

  • Only complete proposals will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project.
  • Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. 
  • The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.). If you think you will not have funds for attending the EAMT event you can add travel costs to your budget. 
  • The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative.

No obligation to award the proposal

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

EAMT Sponsorship of Activities – 2024 Latest

EAMT Sponsorship of Activities – 2024

Call for Proposals 

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 is for the twelfth consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities during 2025.

Purpose of the Call

The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as tutorials, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, and small research and development projects by its current members.

The EAMT particularly encourages proposals from early career researchers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Recent developments in MT research.
  • MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results.
  • Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns.
  • New or prospective commercial users of MT technology.
  • MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.).
  • Interaction between users and MT systems.
  • MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.).
  • MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc.
  • MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development.
  • MT for crisis management. 
  • Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments.
  • Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public.

All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary.

Submission information

Eligibility requirements

In order to qualify for funding, the institution(s) or the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed member of the EAMT at submission time.

Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php

Selection criteria

  • The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and users of MT technologies.
  • The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below).
  • Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops and tutorials.
  • Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted.
  • Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued.
  • The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound.
  • The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated.
  • The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity.

Budget

EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. There are two categories of proposals. The member institutions’ category and the individual members’ category.

The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €10,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €10,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. 

A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT.

Contact for enquiries

Sara Szoc

EAMT Secretary

e-mail: saraszoc@gmail.com

Submission procedure

Overview

Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below.

  1. Proposal description: 2-page maximum (including references)
  2. Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum
  3. Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum

Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2025projectproposal (Project category: General). Authors should use the template available at https://eamt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/eamt2024-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available.

Detailed description of sections of the proposal

  1. Proposal description (two pages) in English
    1. Complete contact information of the candidate.
    2. A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity.
    3. A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community.
    4. A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity.
    5. References.
  2. Experience of the proposing person/organisation in the field (up to one page).
    1. It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team.
  3. Budget and project planning overview (up to one page)
    1. A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event.
    2. Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated.
    3. An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds.

Important Dates

  • Circulation of the Call: October 21, 2024
  • Submission deadline for proposals: November 18, 2024, 23:59 CEST November 25, 2024, 23:59 CEST
  • Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 16, 2024 December 23, 2024

In case of acceptance:

  • Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2025, 23:59 CEST
  • Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2026, 23:59 CET

Additional provisions

  • Only complete proposals will be reviewed.
  • All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project.
  • Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. 
  • The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.), without any claim for additional funds.
  • The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative.

No obligation to award the proposal

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

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

MT Summit 2025: CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Latest

MT Summit 2025: CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites expressions of interest to host the MT Summit 2025 conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) between Summer and Autumn 2025. This will be the 20th Machine Translation Summit, which takes place bi-annually and its organisation and is overseen by the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT), rotating between the sister organisations: EAMT, AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas) and AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation). 

At this stage, we seek 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 August 20, 2023) should include information on all of the following items:
1. Proposed dates: between Spring and Autumn 2025
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 and we expect the same will happen with MT Summit. While Ghent (EAMT 2022) had around 120 registered participants, Tampere (EAMT 2023) had around 190 registered participants. The last in person MT Summit (Dublin, 2019) had around 300 participants. So please suggest a location that could host 400+ people for the main conference sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel workshops and tutorials (100 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; and room for registration
3. Local arrangements team: local chair/co-chair, 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 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 association would be on board of the local organisation
4. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are
5. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner
6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception
7. Potential for local sponsorships
8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings
9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below).

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 expenses 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 conferences held in EMEA
● Co-location with national/regional conferences
● Experience of the local arrangements team
● Local CL community support
● Local government and industry support
● Appropriateness of expected registration fees
● Accessibility of proposed site

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

Helena Moniz: helena.monizcampus.ul.pt

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

Important Dates:

  • August 11th, 2023: Deadline for bids
  • August 18th, 2023: Feedback to bidders and announcement of shortlist of bidders
  • August 25th, 2023: Final bids with implemented feedback
  • August 30th: Final bid chosen
  • September 4th-8th: MT Summit 2024 announcement (at MT Summit 2023)