The 20th edition of the Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2025) will take place in Geneva from June 23 to 27. Organized biennially, the Summit brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry stakeholders working on machine translation and adjacent language technologies. 

This year’s conference will feature a broad scientific program, including over 70 peer-reviewed research papers, and three industry-sponsored talks. Excellent keynote speakers have confirmed their participation: Prof. Sarah Ebling (University of Zurich), Prof. Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University), and Prof. Eva Vanmassenhove (Tilburg University).

Two days of workshops and tutorials will precede the main conference, covering a wide range of topics. 

LLMs Take Center Stage 

With no surprise, a significant portion of this year’s program is devoted to Large Language Models (LLMs), reflecting their growing influence in both academic and applied MT research. Approximately one-third of accepted papers engage with LLMs — exploring their capabilities in translation, evaluation, data annotation, and output improvement.

The conference will also feature a tutorial titled Understanding Large Language Model-Generated Translations, as well as a full-day workshop on AI for Easy and Plain language in institutional contexts. 

MT for Creative and Literary Translation 

MT for creative and literary content continues to gain traction. This year, the second edition of the Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT 2025) will include a considerable number of papers on MT applied to literary texts, with a focus on both LLM-based and traditional approaches. 

The main conference also features related topics, indicating growing academic interest in the challenges and potential of applying MT to stylistically rich texts. 

Low-Resource and Underrepresented Languages

Accepted papers cover a wide range of low-resource languages — including Irish, Catalan, Arabizi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Malayalam, and Telugu. A notable number of contributions also address non-English-centric MT settings. In addition, this year’s Summit will host the 3rd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL). 

This reflects a broader push in the field toward increased linguistic inclusivity and the development of multilingual MT systems beyond high-resource language pairs. 

Gender and Bias-Aware MT 

Gender inclusivity and bias mitigation in MT is another key theme. The 3rd International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025) will feature a solid set of submissions and a keynote talk on inclusive language in localization with AI technologies.

Promising Projects in Perspectives 

The Products and Projects track also attracted a very large number of submissions that will give participants insights into what comes next. 

Program Overview 

Monday 23 June 

• 3rd International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT 2025) (full day) 

• 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts (full day) 

• Tutorial: Understanding Large Language Model-Generated Translations: How Can They Adapt to Different Translation Specification and Pass the Translation Turing Test (half day) – Longhui Zou, Michael Carl, Alan Melby, Brandon Torruella 
• Tutorial: Leveraging Examples in Machine Translation: A Guide to Retrieval and Integration Strategies (half day) – Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego

Tuesday 24 June 

• 2nd Workshop on Creative-text Translation and Technology (CTT 2025) (full day) 

• 3rd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL) (full day)

• 11th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2025) (half-day) 

• Tutorial: Best practices for data quality in human annotation of translation datasets (half day) – Marina Sánchez-Torrón, Jennifer Wong 

Wednesday 25 June to Friday 27 June

• Main conference with oral presentations and poster sessions (full program available here) 

Registration is open (early-bird rate until Wednesday 30 April)