Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026)

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor 2026-11 Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China text conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 wat-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.0/ PSMT-eval: A Benchmark Dataset for Machine Translation Evaluation in Punjabi Shahmukhi Abdul Basit author Abdul Hameed Azeemi author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 basit-azeemi-2026-psmt https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.1/ 2026-11 1 8 LIPI: Transliterating Hindi the Way People Type It Abhishek Gautam author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 gautam-2026-lipi https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.2/ 2026-11 9 16 Style Diagnostic Profile for Translation: A Preliminary JA–EN Study Yuri Amimoto author Ryosuke Mitani author Rem Hida author Ritvik Choudhary author Toshiyuki Sekiya author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 amimoto-etal-2026-style https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.3/ 2026-11 17 45 HexaBee-4B: Six-Language Translation with Multilingual Answering and Bidirectional Supervision Iman Barati author Mohammadmostafa Rostamkhani author Mohammad Badzohreh author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 barati-etal-2026-hexabee https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.4/ 2026-11 46 70 SerialDistill: Retrieval-Conditioned On-Policy Distillation for Data-Scarce Serial Subtitle Translation Yiran Zhang author Ziqi Zhang author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 zhang-zhang-2026-serialdistill https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.5/ 2026-11 71 83 Towards a Rubric-based LLM-as-a-Judge for Patent Claim Translation Evaluation Yingyi Fu author Takehito Utsuro author Masaaki Nagata author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 fu-etal-2026-towards https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.6/ 2026-11 84 103 Machine-Translated Bengali in the Wild: A Provenance Benchmark and a Detector-Flagged Shift Toward Translation in Common Crawl Mantaqa Abedin author Jeba Afia Khan author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 abedin-khan-2026-machine https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.7/ 2026-11 104 118 UTSK26 at WAT2026 Patent Claims Translation/Evaluation Tasks Yingyi Fu author Kosei Buma author Takehito Utsuro author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 fu-etal-2026-utsk26 https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.8/ 2026-11 119 133 Ehime-U System for the WAT 2026 Patent Claims Evaluation Task: LLM-Based Translation Error Prediction Using Word Alignments Wang Xu Yin author Isao Goto author Takashi Ninomiya author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 yin-etal-2026-ehime https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.9/ 2026-11 134 144 GABU@WAT 2026: Zero Shot and QLoRA Adaptation of Gemma 4 E4B for Multimodal English to Indic Translation Shiv Ram Saud author Aashish Mahato author Prajwal Ghimire author Sundeep Dawadi author Ramesh Saud author Sunil Regmi author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 saud-etal-2026-gabu https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.10/ 2026-11 145 154 Findings of the 2nd Patent Claims Translation/Evaluation Task at WAT 2026 Toshiaki Nakazawa author Takashi Tsunakawa author Isao Goto author Katsuhito Sudoh author Shoichi Okuyama author Takashi Ieda author Masaaki Nagata author 2026-11 text Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2026) Toshiaki Nakazawa editor Isao Goto editor Association for Computational Linguistics Hengqin, China conference publication 979-8-89176-446-0 nakazawa-etal-2026-findings https://aclanthology.org/2026.wat-1.11/ 2026-11 155 163