Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the *WAT2025 β English-to-Indic Multimodal Translation Task*, hosted by *IJCNLP-AACL 2025*. This shared task focuses on translating English captions into *Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, and Odia*, using *text, images, or both* as input.
π’ *Update:* The *Odia Visual Genome 1.0 <https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/items/58e6a33d-4f0f-413b-a3f3-c921e0489022>* dataset has been officially released to support this task β a new multimodal resource that pairs Odia text with corresponding visual contexts to advance research in *multimodal and low-resource translation*. πΉ *Important Dates* - *Oct 17, 2025:* *Extended translation submission deadline* - *Oct 27, 2025:* System description paper submission - *Nov 3, 2025:* Review feedback - *Nov 11, 2025:* Camera-ready deadline - *Dec 23β24, 2025:* Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2025 π *Useful Links* - Task Page: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/wat2025english-indicmultimodaltranslation - Registration: https://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2025/application/index.html Please feel free to share this call with other interested colleagues. Regards, *Shantipriya Parida* (AMD Silo AI, Finland) *OndΕej Bojar* (Charles University, Czech Republic) *On behalf of the WAT2025 Organizing Committee* -- Shantipriya Parida Senior AI Scientist @ Silo AI <http://www.silo.ai/> Mobile:# +358 (0465454193) LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/>*Shantipriya Parida <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/>* *http://www.shantipriya.me/ <http://www.shantipriya.me/>*
