{"slug": "all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine", "title": "“All those in favour will please say yea”: Understanding the Factors Behind Machine Translation Adoption at the Canadian Parliament", "summary": "A user study by researchers including Jeniffer Leal-Wyss, Delaney Lothian, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Rebecca Knowles, and Michel Simard, presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation in June 2026, found that translators at the Canadian Parliament use a neural machine translation system as an optional postediting tool, with adoption influenced by both human and technical factors. The study advocates for a user-centred approach to integrating machine translation into professional workflows.", "body_md": "[“All those in favour will please say yea”: Understanding the Factors Behind Machine Translation Adoption at the Canadian Parliament](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36.pdf)\n\n[Jeniffer Leal-Wyss](/people/jeniffer-leal-wyss/unverified/),\n[Delaney Lothian](/people/delaney-lothian/unverified/),\n[Gabriel Bernier-Colborne](/people/gabriel-bernier-colborne/unverified/),\n[Rebecca Knowles](/people/rebecca-knowles/),\n[Michel Simard](/people/michel-simard/)\n\n##### Abstract\n\nTranslators at the Canadian Parliament currently have access to a neural machine translation system as an optional tool integrated into their translation environment, whose output they can use for postediting (rather than translating from scratch); this provides a valuable opportunity to study the dynamics of MT adoption in professional settings. We report on a user study that investigates how and why translators choose to interact with this tool. Using a mixed-methods approach, we examined both human and technical factors that influence the adoption or non-adoption of the system. Drawing on our findings, we advocate for a user-centred approach to MT integration within professional translation workflows.- Anthology ID:\n- 2026.eamt-1.36\n- Volume:\n[Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1)](/volumes/2026.eamt-1/)- Month:\n- June\n- Year:\n- 2026\n- Address:\n- Tilburg, The Netherlands\n- Editors:\n[Dimitar Shterionov](/people/dimitar-shterionov/unverified/),[Eva Vanmassenhove](/people/eva-vanmassenhove/),[Mirella De Sisto](/people/mirella-de-sisto/unverified/),[Fred Blain](/people/frederic-blain/),[Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami](/people/javad-pourmostafa-roshan-sharami/),[Lisa Lepp](/people/lisa-lepp/unverified/),[Chiara Manna](/people/chiara-manna/unverified/),[Argentina Anna Rescigno](/people/argentina-anna-rescigno/),[Alina Karakanta](/people/alina-karakanta/unverified/),[Ayla Rigouts Terryn](/people/ayla-rigouts-terryn/),[Manuel Lardelli](/people/manuel-lardelli/),[Natalia Resende](/people/natalia-resende/unverified/),[Elena Murgolo](/people/elena-murgolo/unverified/),[Janiça Hackenbuchner](/people/janica-hackenbuchner/),[Anna Zaretskaya](/people/anna-zaretskaya/unverified/),[Miquel Esplà-Gomis](/people/miquel-espla-gomis/unverified/),[Thierry Etchegoyhen](/people/thierry-etchegoyhen/unverified/),[Dagmar Gromann](/people/dagmar-gromann/),[Rachel Bawden](/people/rachel-bawden/),[Barry Haddow](/people/barry-haddow/unverified/),[Sara Szoc](/people/sara-szoc/unverified/),[Mikel Forcada](/people/mikel-l-forcada/),[Helena Moniz](/people/helena-moniz/)- Venue:\n[EAMT](/venues/eamt/)- SIG:\n- Publisher:\n- European Association for Machine Translation\n- Note:\n- Pages:\n- 562–587\n- Language:\n- URL:\n[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36/](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36/)- DOI:\n- Cite (ACL):\n- Jeniffer Leal-Wyss, Delaney Lothian, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Rebecca Knowles, and Michel Simard. 2026.\n[“All those in favour will please say yea”: Understanding the Factors Behind Machine Translation Adoption at the Canadian Parliament](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36/). In*Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1)*, pages 562–587, Tilburg, The Netherlands. European Association for Machine Translation. - Cite (Informal):\n[“All those in favour will please say yea”: Understanding the Factors Behind Machine Translation Adoption at the Canadian Parliament](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36/)(Leal-Wyss et al., EAMT 2026)- PDF:\n[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36.pdf](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36.pdf)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine", "canonical_source": "https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-1.36/", "published_at": "2026-08-24 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 23:49:47.680004+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "natural-language-processing", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Canadian Parliament", "Jeniffer Leal-Wyss", "Delaney Lothian", "Gabriel Bernier-Colborne", "Rebecca Knowles", "Michel Simard", "European Association for Machine Translation"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/all-those-in-favour-will-please-say-yea-understanding-the-factors-behind-machine.jsonld"}}