Agenteak: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Terminology-Constrained Spanish-Basque Translation

Jurgi Giraud, Andrew Gargett


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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2026.wmt-main.114
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Barry Haddow, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz
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WMT | WS
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1791–1800
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Jurgi Giraud and Andrew Gargett. 2026. Agenteak: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Terminology-Constrained Spanish-Basque Translation. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1791–1800, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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