A Longitudinal Study of the Adoption of Specialized MT Systems in Canadian Parliamentary Translation

A Longitudinal Study of the Adoption of Specialized MT Systems in Canadian Parliamentary Translation

[Michel Simard](/people/michel-simard/),
[Jeniffer Leal-Wyss](/people/jeniffer-leal-wyss/unverified/),
[Gabriel Bernier-Colborne](/people/gabriel-bernier-colborne/unverified/),
[Rebecca Knowles](/people/rebecca-knowles/)

Abstract

Since 2023, translators for the Parliament of Canada have had the option to use neural machine translation (NMT) technology provided by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to support their work in translating parliamentary publications between French and English. We present our analysis of an anonymized dataset of translators’ interactions with our Hawkeye MT systems, collected since their introduction and covering a period of 2.5 years. This data provides a unique perspective on how translators interact with the systems, how their use evolved over time and how it impacts the nature of their translations.- Anthology ID:

- 2026.eamt-2.32
- Volume:
[Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2)](/volumes/2026.eamt-2/)- Month:

• June
• Year:
• 2026
• Address:
• Tilburg, The Netherlands
• Editors: Dimitar Shterionov,Eva Vanmassenhove,Mirella De Sisto,Fred Blain,Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami,Lisa Lepp,Chiara Manna,Argentina Anna Rescigno,Alina Karakanta,Ayla Rigouts Terryn,Manuel Lardelli,Natalia Resende,Elena Murgolo,Janiça Hackenbuchner,Anna Zaretskaya,Miquel Esplà-Gomis,Thierry Etchegoyhen,Dagmar Gromann,Rachel Bawden,Barry Haddow,Sara Szoc,Mikel Forcada,Helena Moniz- Venue:

[EAMT](/venues/eamt/)- SIG:
- Publisher:

• European Association for Machine Translation

- Note:
- Pages:

• 120–128

- Language:
- URL:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.32/](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.32/)- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):

• Michel Simard, Jeniffer Leal-Wyss, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, and Rebecca Knowles. 2026. A Longitudinal Study of the Adoption of Specialized MT Systems in Canadian Parliamentary Translation. InProceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2), pages 120–128, Tilburg, The Netherlands. European Association for Machine Translation. - Cite (Informal):

[A Longitudinal Study of the Adoption of Specialized MT Systems in Canadian Parliamentary Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.32/)(Simard et al., EAMT 2026)- PDF:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.32.pdf](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.32.pdf)