TransCore: The NewTranx Submission to the Constrained Track of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task

Hao Yu, Ziyan Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Yulong Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Kaiyu Huang, Degen Huang


Abstract
This paper describes TransCore, the NewTranx submission to the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task constrained track. Our system is built upon the Qwen3-8B large language model and adopts a two-stage supervised fine-tuning framework trained exclusively on publicly available data. Our approach focuses on high-quality multilingual data construction, including parallel corpus construction, knowledge-distilled corpus construction, and instruction-following data construction. For the parallel corpus, we construct a high-quality multilingual training corpus through multilingual data collection and automatic quality filtering. For knowledge distillation, we construct a KD corpus from publicly available monolingual resources using a large language model, followed by automatic quality filtering. To support the instruction-following evaluation introduced in WMT26, we further construct instruction data covering immutable entity preservation, document-level translation, and structured translation, which are incorporated into the first-stage supervised fine-tuning. Our system participates in four language directions of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task: English$\rightarrow$Indonesian, English$\rightarrow$Kazakh, English$\rightarrow$Thai, and Chinese$\rightarrow$Japanese.
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2026.wmt-main.85
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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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1477–1483
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Hao Yu, Ziyan Chen, Hongyu Zhao, Yulong Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Kaiyu Huang, and Degen Huang. 2026. TransCore: The NewTranx Submission to the Constrained Track of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1477–1483, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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TransCore: The NewTranx Submission to the Constrained Track of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task (Yu et al., WMT 2026)
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