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Japanese --> English:
Article-level News Translation Task

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TASK DESCRIPTION

This task focuses on translating news articles from Japanese into English. As part of this article-level translation task, we will evaluate three types of English translations derived from the original Japanese article:
1. A literal translation
2. A translation adapted to English news article style
3. A reconstruction of the original English article

Dataset statistics

For WAT2025, we plan to provide new Japanese and English news articles, literal English translations produced by human translators, and translations adapted to English news article style, also produced by human translators.

  • WAT 2025 dev data: TBD (to be added)
  • WAT 2025 test data: TBD (to be added)

    • In addition, we will release a Japanese-English sentence-level translation dataset created from news articles, intended for use as training data.

  • Training data: approx. 200,000 sentences
  • Dev data: 479 sentences
  • Test data: 1,851 sentences

    • IMPORTANT DATES

    Shared Task Submission Deadline

    TBA

    System Description Paper for Shared Tasks Submission Deadline

    September 29, 2025

    Review Feedback of System Description Papers

    November 3, 2025

    Camera-ready Deadline

    November 11, 2025

    Workshop Dates

    December 23 or 24, 2025

    * All deadlines are calculated at 11:59PM UTC-12

    ORGANIZIZERS

    • Naoto Shirai (shirai.n-hk -at- nhk.or.jp), NHK

    • Hitoshi Ito (itou.h-ce -at- nhk.or.jp), NHK

    • Kazutaka Kinugawa (kinugawa.k-jg -at- nhk.or.jp), NHK

    • Hideya Mino (mino.h-gq -at- nhk.or.jp), NHK

    CHANGE LOG

    2025-07-04: Site opened