Registration

If you would like to participate in this shared task, please fill out the registration form and ensure that your information is correct and your email is able to receive messages. Once we receive your registration information, we will send the training data to your email address. Please check your email regularly. If you do not receive a reply for a long time, please check if your email was sent successfully.

Submitting Runs

Once the system has produced the results for the task over the test set, participants have to follow these instructions for completing your submission:

File Naming

Name the runs with the following filename format: taskID_teamName_systemID.txt
“taskID” is the unique ID for each task as follows:

  • For Sumerian to English the taskID is S2E
  • For Cuneiform to English the taskID is C2E
  • For transcribed Akkadian to English the taskID is T2E

Submission format

The output files for system-level rankings should be formatted as a text file in the following way:

<line_number><pred>

<line_number> is the line number in the source file.
<pred> is the machine translation outputs of your system.

How to submit

Before you submit, please run your scores files through a validation script, which we will provide later. You should use it along with BLEU.
You can make up to 2 submissions per language pair, per team.

Writing the Technical Report

Papers should not be longer than 4 pages of content (for references, unlimited number of pages is allowed). The papers must follow the MT Summit 2023 style guides (PDF version, LaTeX version, MS Word version, and Overleaf template) and be submitted in PDF format.
To allow for blind reviewing, please do not include author names and affiliations within the paper and avoid obvious self- references.

Papers must be submitted to this website by the conference submission deadline.