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title = "{I}mg{MT}: {W}ikipedia-based Dataset For Evaluating Text-in-Image Translation",
author = "Uramov{\'a}, {\v{S}}{\'a}rka and
Petrov, Petar and
Jon, Josef and
Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and
Nov{\'a}k, Michal",
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.43/",
pages = "765--781",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-474-3",
abstract = "Text-in-image translation aims to translate all textual content embedded in an image. In Text Image Translation (TIT), the output is translated text; In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) additionally renders the translation back into the image. We introduce ImgMT, a massively multilingual dataset and benchmark mined from localized SVG illustrations on Wikimedia Commons, focusing on diagrams, maps, and infographics. ImgMT contains 35,612 aligned image pairs grouped into 1,855 image sets, spanning 129 languages, 20+ writing systems, and 4,886 language pairs.\par We propose a multi-level evaluation protocol that measures source-side text-region detection and OCR accuracy alongside target-side translation quality. We benchmark several multimodal large language models and a dedicated TIT system in English-to-X and X-to-English settings, and find that the source language and writing system substantially affect TIT quality. Finally, we show that ImgMT is not well suited for isolating the contribution of visual information in multimodal translation."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T ImgMT: Wikipedia-based Dataset For Evaluating Text-in-Image Translation
%A Uramová, Šárka
%A Petrov, Petar
%A Jon, Josef
%A Bojar, Ondřej
%A Novák, Michal
%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 uramova-etal-2026-imgmt
%X Text-in-image translation aims to translate all textual content embedded in an image. In Text Image Translation (TIT), the output is translated text; In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) additionally renders the translation back into the image. We introduce ImgMT, a massively multilingual dataset and benchmark mined from localized SVG illustrations on Wikimedia Commons, focusing on diagrams, maps, and infographics. ImgMT contains 35,612 aligned image pairs grouped into 1,855 image sets, spanning 129 languages, 20+ writing systems, and 4,886 language pairs.\par We propose a multi-level evaluation protocol that measures source-side text-region detection and OCR accuracy alongside target-side translation quality. We benchmark several multimodal large language models and a dedicated TIT system in English-to-X and X-to-English settings, and find that the source language and writing system substantially affect TIT quality. Finally, we show that ImgMT is not well suited for isolating the contribution of visual information in multimodal translation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.43/
%P 765-781
Markdown (Informal)
[ImgMT: Wikipedia-based Dataset For Evaluating Text-in-Image Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.43/) (Uramová et al., WMT 2026)
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