Abstract
Style guides are a centrepiece of professional translation workflows. Yet, their integration into automatic pipelines remains underexplored. This paper presents exploratory work on information extraction from client style guides and application to a templated style guide, developed to be a system prompt. This template is then applied during an LLM-based translation to automatically produce outputs that are compliant to client’s requirements. The study focused on seven language pairs~(LP), evaluating the automatic extraction, and translation quality and compliance with the style guide. The extraction demonstrated reliable performance across languages and file formats. Translation quality and adherence were evaluated using human preference annotation, comparing two Tower models (Tower Zen 9B and Tower+ 72B). The results indicate a modest advantage for Tower+, but with mutual acceptability in certain instances. These findings establish a viable semi-automatic framework for style guide integration in translation workflows, and motivate further investigation across broader domains, clients, and LPs.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.eamt-2.31
- Volume:
[Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2)](https://aclanthology.org/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](https://aclanthology.org/venues/eamt/)- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Association for Machine Translation
- Note:
- Pages:
- 114–119
- Language:
- URL:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31/](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31/)- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Leonor Graça, Vera Cabarrão, and Helena Moniz. 2026. Automated Information Extraction and Template Filling from Client Style Guides. InProceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2), pages 114–119, Tilburg, The Netherlands. European Association for Machine Translation. - Cite (Informal):
[Automated Information Extraction and Template Filling from Client Style Guides](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31/)(Graça et al., EAMT 2026)- PDF:
[https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31.pdf](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31.pdf)