DEADLINE EXTENSION

for Proposals for Papers & Presentations 

Wednesday, 13 May 2026 (midnight, any time zone)

For AMTA 2026, a three-day event under the auspices of
the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Monday, 31 August 2026 through Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Centre des congrès de Québec

Québec City, Canada

The Board of Directors of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas announces a one-week extension for proposals for 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.

The deadline is Wednesday, 13 May 2026.

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: 

1. a traditional, rigorous peer review process for formal academic papers, and
2. 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  

• Final deadline extension: Wednesday, 13 May 2026 (midnight any time zone)
• Notification of acceptance: 18 June 2026
• Final “camera-ready” papers for proceedings: 20 July 2026

Submission Instructions

All versions of abstracts, papers, and slide decks must be submitted via the SUBMISSION WEBSITE.This site requires an easy-to-perform registration as an author.

For Research Papers

• Research papers submitted for peer review must be submitted via the “Main Conference – Research (Peer Review)” track on the SUBMISSION WEBSITE. 
• Papers should not be longer than 8 pages of content (for references, unlimited pages are allowed). Accepted papers will receive an additional two pages in which they can add content in response to reviewer requests if needed. 
• The papers must follow the style guides (PDF version, LaTeX version, Word version) and be submitted in PDF format. 
• To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self-references. 
• Research track papers must represent new work that has not been previously published (pre-prints posted online on servers such as arXiv do not count as published papers, and thus are allowed to be submitted; we do not require a 1-month anonymity period for previous submissions on arXiv). 
• Authors submitting a similar paper to another conference or workshop must specify this at submission time; if the paper is accepted to multiple venues, the author must choose which one to present at. 
• For questions concerning the submission of peer-reviewed papers, please write an e-mail to  mtresearchers@amtaweb.org.

For Presentation Proposals

• Proposals for presentations must be submitted via the “Main Conference – Presentation Proposals” track on the SUBMISSION WEBSITE. 
• Please submit a 250 to 500-word abstract describing your presentation topic along with a 100 word or less biography of the proposed speaker(s). 
• We welcome presentations from MT technology and service providers, but their presentations should not constitute a “sales pitch.” The focus should be on innovative MT technology, processes, and real-world use cases, rather than on a particular product or offering.
• If you submit a paper for publication, it should be formatted according to the Peer-Reviewed Research Paper Submission Instructions, above. Presentations in the form of slide decks are also acceptable for the Presentation Proposals Track and should be submitted as PDFs. Only abstracts are required to be submitted by the initial submission date. Final versions of papers and slide decks must be submitted by the final camera-ready date for publication. 
• For questions concerning the presentation proposals, please write an e-mail to mtusers-providers@amtaweb.org.

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 organizing.committee@amtaweb.org.

We look forward to receiving your submission!