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title = "Agenteak: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Terminology-Constrained {S}panish-{B}asque Translation",
author = "Giraud, Jurgi and
Gargett, Andrew",
editor = "Haddow, Barry and
Kocmi, Tom and
Koehn, Philipp and
Monz, Christof",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.114/",
pages = "1791--1800",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-474-3",
abstract = "This paper describes the OpenU{'}s submission to the WMT26 Terminology Translation Task for Spanish into Basque (Track 1), covering the automotive and energy domains. We present AGENTEAK, a multi-agent system built on LangGraph in which three compact open-weight models (4-8B parameters) cooperate: a reasoning model that selects and disambiguates the terminology relevant to each segment, a domain fine-tuned translation model, and a verification model that checks and repairs terminology in the draft translation. To adapt the translator, we mined in-domain Spanish-Basque bitext from Wikipedia using multilingual sentence embeddings and complemented the data with in-domain synthetic parallel paragraphs generated by an instruction-tuned Basque LLM. Domain-tagged fine-tuning improves the base model by up to 10.4 BLEU and 3.9 COMET points on our in-domain test sets. On the shared task data, supplying the pipeline with correct terminology raises terminology success rate from 0.613 to 0.757 (automotive) and from 0.601 to 0.774 (energy)."
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%A Giraud, Jurgi
%A Gargett, Andrew
%Y Haddow, Barry
%Y Kocmi, Tom
%Y Koehn, Philipp
%Y Monz, Christof
%S Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
%D 2026
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Budapest, Hungary
%@ 979-8-89176-474-3
%F giraud-gargett-2026-agenteak
%X This paper describes the OpenU’s submission to the WMT26 Terminology Translation Task for Spanish into Basque (Track 1), covering the automotive and energy domains. We present AGENTEAK, a multi-agent system built on LangGraph in which three compact open-weight models (4-8B parameters) cooperate: a reasoning model that selects and disambiguates the terminology relevant to each segment, a domain fine-tuned translation model, and a verification model that checks and repairs terminology in the draft translation. To adapt the translator, we mined in-domain Spanish-Basque bitext from Wikipedia using multilingual sentence embeddings and complemented the data with in-domain synthetic parallel paragraphs generated by an instruction-tuned Basque LLM. Domain-tagged fine-tuning improves the base model by up to 10.4 BLEU and 3.9 COMET points on our in-domain test sets. On the shared task data, supplying the pipeline with correct terminology raises terminology success rate from 0.613 to 0.757 (automotive) and from 0.601 to 0.774 (energy).
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.114/
%P 1791-1800
Markdown (Informal)
[Agenteak: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Terminology-Constrained Spanish-Basque Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.114/) (Giraud & Gargett, WMT 2026)
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