The Board of Directors of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to announce the first call for papers and presentations for AMTA 2026, the 17th biennial AMTA conference, a three-day in-person event to be held from Monday, 31 August 2026 through Wednesday, 2 September 2026 at the Centre des congrès de Québec, in Québec City, Canada.
Like all AMTA events, AMTA 2026 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and providers of MT and related cross-lingual technology from academia, industry, and government. It will include keynote talks, panel discussions, individual presentations, and demonstrations from technology providers.
The organizing committee of AMTA 2026 is seeking proposals for papers and presentations on all topics related to research, development, application, and evaluation of Machine Translation and cross-lingual technologies. Our goal is to have a broad and engaging program that appeals to the various constituents of the MT community (researchers, developers, users, and language professionals).
To encourage deeper interaction among researchers, developers, users, and providers who share specific interests, presentations will be scheduled according to subject matter. So, instead of submitting a proposal to a particular track, we instead ask authors to choose from two distinct review methods:
- a traditional, rigorous peer review process for formal academic papers, and
- a less formal but still rigorous review process that will be used for all other presentations.
Members of the research community are encouraged to submit papers for peer review focusing on recent research on machine translation and other cross-lingual technologies, including technical research and development topics as well as academic treatments of the application of these technologies.
Developers, providers, users, or analysts of MT or LLMs as they relate to the task of translation or to the creation of processing of cross-lingual content are encouraged to submit proposals for presentations that cover leading-edge R&D experiments, practical applications, and case studies of these technologies.
Accepted papers and presentations will be presented as 20-minute talks (15-minute presentations, plus 5 minutes for questions).
Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Latest advances in MT
- Using Large Language Models for translation, transcreation, and other cross-lingual use cases
- Training Data: data sources, extraction, alignment, and cleaning of corpora, terminology, data augmentation, metadata extraction, multimodal data, etc.
- Adaptation and customization of MT models or LLMs for cross-lingual use cases
- Augmenting MT with ML, NLP or generative AI
- Comparative evaluation of MT systems
- MT for low resource languages
- Model distillation, compression, and on-device MT
- MT in production scenarios, robustness and deployment issues.
- MT for multiple modalities (speech, sign language, video, etc.)
- MT for real-time communication (chats, social networks, etc.)
- Integration of MT and related cross-lingual technologies in translation and localization pipelines
- Output quality estimation and evaluation: tools, methods, and metrics, such as human evaluations, automatic scoring, and automatic annotation of MT output
- Detecting and preventing catastrophic errors in output
- Measuring fairness, bias, and transparency in output
- Post-editing and human-in-the-loop methods: New approaches, successes and failures, applicability to different content-types, etc.
- The interaction of translators and interpreters with MT and generative AI tools and output
- Advanced MT fine-tuning and enhancement: including pre- and post-processing; controlling style, tone of voice, gender
- Interactive and real-time adaptive MT systems: including advanced approaches to leverage TM and end-user feedback
- Business Cases: making the business case for adopting MT and related cross-lingual technologies to drive business requirements
- Ethics, policy, and regulatory trends concerning the use of MT or generative AI for cross-lingual use cases
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Source text improvement: improving the source content destined for MT through automatic tools such as grammar correction, guidelines, and NLP
Please note that proposals that do not relate these technologies or their application to language or only concern monolingual use cases are not suitable for this conference and will not be accepted.
Ethics and the use of AI
Please note that AMTA follows the ACL guidelines for ethics, plagiarism and the use of AI in authoring papers and presentations for AMTA 2026. For instance, generative AI tools and technologies may not be listed as authors of a submission, and any use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content should instead be fully disclosed in the Acknowledgements section.
Important dates
- Submission deadline: 6 May 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 18 June 2026
- Final “camera-ready” papers for proceedings: 20 July 2026
Submission Instructions
A link to the submission site and full instructions for submitting your paper or presentation will be provided here as soon as they become available.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Publication and recording
For peer-reviewed papers, this is an archival event. The proceedings, which will include all papers and presentations given at the conference, will be published on the ACL Anthology website.
A selection of presentations will be recorded and made available online after the event to AMTA members. Submission of a proposal will be understood by the Organizing Committee as the author’s tacit permission for AMTA to create an audio and video recording of the presentation and make it available to conference attendees via the conference platform and later to members of AMTA via the organization’s website.
Note about workshops and tutorials
Traditionally, workshops and tutorials associated with the AMTA conference were held on a pre- and post-conference day. AMTA 2026, however, will feature a day of workshops and tutorials held completely virtually ahead of the main conference. For information about submitting a proposal for a workshop or tutorial, please see the separate CFP for those sessions on the amtaweb.org site.
Please direct any questions you may have to [email protected].
We look forward to receiving your submission!
| AMTA Board of Directors | ||
| Jay Marciano, President | Eleftheria Briakou, Director | Vera Senderowicz, Director |
| Alex Yanishevsky, Vice President | Jeremy Gwinnup, Director | Konstantine Boukhvalov, Director |
| Ed Watts, Treasurer | Shivali Goel, Director | Derick Fajardo, Director |
| Marianna Martindale, Secretary | Cecilia Yalangozian, Director | Lara Shackelford Daly, Director |
| Steve Richardson, Counselor | Georg Kirchner, Director | Alon Lavie, Consultant |