📰 WMT 2025 — accepted papers

WMT 2025 is the 2025 edition of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), held in Suzhou, China, November 2025 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 112 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Suzhou, China · 🗓 November 2025

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Meaningful Pose-Based Sign Language Evaluation ↗Zifan Jiang, Colin Leong, Amit Moryossef et al.4 citations
2. Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek ↗Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov, Azizullah Aral, Abror Shopulatov et al.3 citations
3. Findings of the WMT25 Terminology Translation Task: Terminology is Useful Especially for Good MTs ↗Kirill Semenov, Xu Huang, Vilém Zouhar et al.3 citations
4. Evaluation of QWEN-3 for English to Ukrainian Translation ↗Cristian Grozea, Oleg Verbitsky2 citations
5. Findings of the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Time to Stop Evaluating on Easy Test SetsTom Kocmi, Ekaterina Artemova, Eleftherios Avramidis et al.2 citations · our summary
6. Findings of the WMT25 Shared Task on Automated Translation Evaluation Systems: Linguistic Diversity is Challenging and References Still Help ↗Alon Lavie, Greg Hanneman, Sweta Agrawal et al.2 citations
7. JU-NLP: Improving Low-Resource Indic Translation System with Efficient LoRA-Based Adaptation ↗Priyobroto Acharya, Haranath Mondal, Dipanjan Saha et al.2 citations
8. Self-Retrieval from Distant Contexts for Document-Level Machine Translation ↗Ziqian Peng, Rachel Bawden, François Yvon2 citations
9. Translate, Then Detect: Leveraging Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Toxicity Classification ↗Samuel Bell, Eduardo Sánchez, David Dale et al.2 citations
10. AMI at WMT25 General Translation Task: How Low Can We Go? Finetuning Lightweight Llama Models for Low Resource Machine Translation ↗Atli Jasonarson, Steinthor Steingrimsson1 citation

All accepted papers (112)

The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Meaningful Pose-Based Sign Language Evaluation ↗Zifan Jiang, Colin Leong, Amit Moryossef et al.4 citations
2. Filling the Gap for Uzbek: Creating Translation Resources for Southern Uzbek ↗Mukhammadsaid Mamasaidov, Azizullah Aral, Abror Shopulatov et al.3 citations
3. Findings of the WMT25 Terminology Translation Task: Terminology is Useful Especially for Good MTs ↗Kirill Semenov, Xu Huang, Vilém Zouhar et al.3 citations
4. Evaluation of QWEN-3 for English to Ukrainian Translation ↗Cristian Grozea, Oleg Verbitsky2 citations
5. Findings of the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Time to Stop Evaluating on Easy Test SetsTom Kocmi, Ekaterina Artemova, Eleftherios Avramidis et al.2 citations · our summary
6. Findings of the WMT25 Shared Task on Automated Translation Evaluation Systems: Linguistic Diversity is Challenging and References Still Help ↗Alon Lavie, Greg Hanneman, Sweta Agrawal et al.2 citations
7. JU-NLP: Improving Low-Resource Indic Translation System with Efficient LoRA-Based Adaptation ↗Priyobroto Acharya, Haranath Mondal, Dipanjan Saha et al.2 citations
8. Self-Retrieval from Distant Contexts for Document-Level Machine Translation ↗Ziqian Peng, Rachel Bawden, François Yvon2 citations
9. Translate, Then Detect: Leveraging Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Toxicity Classification ↗Samuel Bell, Eduardo Sánchez, David Dale et al.2 citations
10. AMI at WMT25 General Translation Task: How Low Can We Go? Finetuning Lightweight Llama Models for Low Resource Machine Translation ↗Atli Jasonarson, Steinthor Steingrimsson1 citation
11. AkibaNLP-TUT: Injecting Language-Specific Word-Level Noise for Low-Resource Language Translation ↗Shoki Hamada, Tomoyosi Akiba, Hajime Tsukada1 citation
12. An Empirical Analysis of Machine Translation for Expanding Multilingual Benchmarks ↗Sara Rajaee, Rochelle Choenni, Ekaterina Shutova et al.1 citation
13. Cross-lingual Human-Preference Alignment for Neural Machine Translation with Direct Quality Optimization ↗Kaden Uhlig, Joern Wuebker, Raphael Reinauer et al.1 citation
14. DTW-Align: Bridging the Modality Gap in End-to-End Speech Translation with Dynamic Time Warping Alignment ↗Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes et al.1 citation
15. DocHPLT: A Massively Multilingual Document-Level Translation Dataset ↗Dayyán O'Brien, Bhavitvya Malik, Ona de Gibert et al.1 citation
16. Evaluating WMT 2025 Metrics Shared Task Submissions on the SSA-MTE African Challenge Set ↗Senyu Li, Felermino Dario Mario Ali, Jiayi Wang et al.1 citation
17. Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy–Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation ↗Behzad Shayegh, Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar et al.1 citation
18. Findings of the WMT 2025 Shared Task on Model Compression: Early Insights on Compressing LLMs for Machine Translation ↗Marco Gaido, Roman Grundkiewicz, Thamme Gowda et al.1 citation
19. Improved Norwegian Bokmål Translations for FLORES ↗Petter Mæhlum, Anders Næss Evensen, Yves Scherrer1 citation
20. Improving Low-Resource Japanese Translation with Fine-Tuning and Backtranslation for the WMT 25 General Translation Task ↗Felipe Fujita, Hideyuki Takada1 citation
21. Long-context Reference-based MT Quality Estimation ↗Sami Ul Haq, Chinonso Cynthia Osuji, Thiago Castro Ferreira et al.1 citation
22. OpenWHO: A Document-Level Parallel Corpus for Health Translation in Low-Resource Languages ↗Raphael Merx, Hanna Suominen, Trevor Cohn et al.1 citation
23. RoCS-MT v2 at WMT 2025: Robust Challenge Set for Machine Translation ↗Rachel Bawden, Benoît Sagot1 citation
24. SONAR-SLT: Multilingual Sign Language Translation via Language-Agnostic Sentence Embedding Supervision ↗Yasser Hamidullah, Shakib Yazdani, Cennet Oguz et al.1 citation
25. TASER: Translation Assessment via Systematic Evaluation and Reasoning ↗Monishwaran Maheswaran, Marco Carini, Christian Federmann et al.1 citation

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📄 Papers with our summary in our library (1)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Findings of the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Time to Stop Evaluating on Easy Test SetsConference on Machine Translation (WMT)Tom Kocmi, Ekaterina Artemova, Eleftherios Avramidis, et al.2025 · 73 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🔁Machine translation (1)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (1)🖥️Computer Science (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States1 work here🏢GoogleMountain View · United States1 work here🔬Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numériqueLe Chesnay-Rocquencourt · France1 work here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States1 work here🎓University of Southern DenmarkOdense · Denmark1 work here🎓Charles UniversityPrague · Czechia1 work here🏢NTTTokyo · Japan1 work here🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States1 work here🎓Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic StudiesReykjavik · Iceland1 work here🔬German Research Centre for Artificial IntelligenceKaiserslautern · Germany1 work here🎓ETH ZurichZurich · Switzerland1 work here🏢Microsoft (United Kingdom)Reading · United Kingdom1 work here

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