*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.
We sincerely thank all the teams who have already registered and participated in the task for their enthusiasm and contributions to advancing multimodal translation research. πΉ *Important Dates* - *Oct 20, 2025 (AOE): Final 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/>*
