@inproceedings{thavarasa-etal-2026-obligatory,
    title = "Obligatory Slots: Under Reference-Free Evaluation, Dropping a Distinction the Source Never Made Is Free",
    author = "Thavarasa, Luxshan  and
      Thevakumar, Jubeerathan  and
      Sukumar, Sivasuthan",
    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.41/",
    pages = "727--746",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-474-3"
}