EAMT 2026 European Association for Machine Translation

Heads-up: planning trains from Paris, Belgium, or via the Dutch high-speed line

Posted: March 29, 2026

If you are thinking about coming to Tilburg by train, you may have noticed that tickets for some international services—especially on the Paris–Brussels–Amsterdam–Rotterdam corridor around 13 and 14 June—are not on sale yet, sometimes without a clear notice on booking sites.

According to NS International, this is related to planned maintenance on the high-speed line (HSL) (including work in the Rotterdam area). The full impact is still being determined, so ticket sales have been paused as a precaution. At the moment there is no fixed date for when sales might reopen, or exactly how services will be affected.

We are not announcing a closure ourselves—this is simply what travellers have been told when asking operators—but we wanted to give you an early, friendly heads-up so you can monitor NS International (and other carriers), leave a little flexibility in your plans if you can, and consider alternatives if you were aiming to arrive a day or two before the conference. EAMT runs 15–18 June; we hope this helps a few people avoid a last-minute surprise.

♿ Accessibility at EAMT 2026 – Sign language welcome video

Posted: March 20, 2026

We are pleased to share our accessibility page with information for Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing participants. A welcome video in International Sign is now available, along with details on sign language interpreters (NGT or International Sign), automatic captioning, and venue accessibility. Requests for interpreters should be submitted by 8 May 2026.

📢 Call for Papers: Deadline extended to 27 March 2026, EOD CEST

Posted: March 12, 2026

The new deadline is 27 March 2026, EOD CEST. The paper submission deadline for EAMT 2026 has been extended. We encourage you to submit your work; the submission window remains open until 27 March 2026, EOD CEST.

📢 Final Call for Papers: Shape the Future of MT at EAMT 2026

Posted: February 16, 2026

The submission window is still open, and we are looking for your best work. The new deadline is 27 March 2026, EOD CEST. Whether you are researching Technical Advancements, User Studies, or Products/Projects, EAMT 2026 in Tilburg is the platform to showcase your results. We invite submissions on advances in LLM and MT, evaluation methodologies, and a lot of other topics.

Second Keynote Speaker Announced: Dr. Antonio Toral

Posted: February 12, 2026

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Antonio Toral as our second keynote speaker for EAMT 2026! Dr. Toral is a Distinguished Researcher in Machine Translation at the Universitat d'Alacant, Spain. His research focuses on literary MT, under-resourced languages, and the computational analysis of translations produced by machines and humans. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, where he coordinated the Computational Linguistics research group. He coordinated the Abu-MaTran project, which was flagged by the European Commission as a success story and won the best paper award at MT Summit 2019 for his work on post-editese.

Keynote Talk Details: Large Language Models and Machine Translation

Posted: February 2, 2026

We are excited to share details about Dr. Rachel Bawden's keynote talk at EAMT 2026. Her presentation, titled "Large Language Models and Machine Translation: From Low-Resource to Unseen Languages," will explore new approaches to MT using LLMs, addressing challenges in low-resource languages and discussing recent research directions including sentence decomposition, synthetic parallel data creation, and learning translation from grammar descriptions.

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

Posted: January 2026

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites entries for its fourteenth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation. The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations completed in 2025 at European, African or Middle Eastern institutions. The winner will receive €500, a certificate, waived conference registration, and a travel bursary. Submission deadline: 30 January 2026, 23:59 CET.

Sponsorship Opportunities Now Available

Posted: January 2026

We're excited to share that our comprehensive sponsorship packages for EAMT 2026 are now available! Whether you're looking to showcase your brand, connect with leading researchers and practitioners, or support the machine translation community, we have sponsorship tiers to suit organizations of all sizes. From Platinum to Supporter levels, each package offers unique benefits including visibility, networking opportunities, and access to our Career Connect program.

Workshop Information Now Available

Posted: January 2026

We are pleased to announce that detailed information about the workshops at EAMT 2026 is now available on our website. Three exciting workshops will be held on June 15, 2026: TAITT 2026 (1st International Workshop on Teaching AI-based Translation and Technologies), GITT 2026 (4th International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies), and StyGenAI 2026 (1st Workshop on Style in Generative AI Translation).

Keynote Speaker Announced: Dr. Rachel Bawden

Posted: December 2025

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Rachel Bawden as a keynote speaker for #EAMT2026! Dr. Bawden is a researcher in the ALMAnaCH project-team at Inria Paris, France, and a specialist in Machine Translation (MT) and multilingual NLP. She is currently a fellow at PR[AI]RIE-PSAI research institution.

Announcing EAMT 2026 in Tilburg!

Posted: June 2025

The MT Summit 2025 took place in Geneva, Switzerland from June 23rd to 27th 2025. During the summit, EAMT 2026 was announced and will be hosted in Tilburg by the ISMT group.