Automated Information Extraction and Template Filling from Client Style Guides

Researchers Leonor Graça, Vera Cabarrão, and Helena Moniz presented exploratory work at the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) on automatically extracting information from client style guides and filling a templated style guide used as a system prompt for LLM-based translation. Evaluating seven language pairs, they found reliable extraction performance and, via human preference annotation, a modest advantage for the Tower+ 72B model over Tower Zen 9B in translation quality and compliance, establishing a viable semi-automatic framework for style guide integration.

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 https://aclanthology.org/people/dimitar-shterionov/unverified/ , Eva Vanmassenhove https://aclanthology.org/people/eva-vanmassenhove/ , Mirella De Sisto https://aclanthology.org/people/mirella-de-sisto/unverified/ , Fred Blain https://aclanthology.org/people/frederic-blain/ , Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami https://aclanthology.org/people/javad-pourmostafa-roshan-sharami/ , Lisa Lepp https://aclanthology.org/people/lisa-lepp/unverified/ , Chiara Manna https://aclanthology.org/people/chiara-manna/unverified/ , Argentina Anna Rescigno https://aclanthology.org/people/argentina-anna-rescigno/ , Alina Karakanta https://aclanthology.org/people/alina-karakanta/unverified/ , Ayla Rigouts Terryn https://aclanthology.org/people/ayla-rigouts-terryn/ , Manuel Lardelli https://aclanthology.org/people/manuel-lardelli/ , Natalia Resende https://aclanthology.org/people/natalia-resende/unverified/ , Elena Murgolo https://aclanthology.org/people/elena-murgolo/unverified/ , Janiça Hackenbuchner https://aclanthology.org/people/janica-hackenbuchner/ , Anna Zaretskaya https://aclanthology.org/people/anna-zaretskaya/unverified/ , Miquel Esplà-Gomis https://aclanthology.org/people/miquel-espla-gomis/unverified/ , Thierry Etchegoyhen https://aclanthology.org/people/thierry-etchegoyhen/unverified/ , Dagmar Gromann https://aclanthology.org/people/dagmar-gromann/ , Rachel Bawden https://aclanthology.org/people/rachel-bawden/ , Barry Haddow https://aclanthology.org/people/barry-haddow/unverified/ , Sara Szoc https://aclanthology.org/people/sara-szoc/unverified/ , Mikel Forcada https://aclanthology.org/people/mikel-l-forcada/ , Helena Moniz https://aclanthology.org/people/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 https://aclanthology.org/2026.eamt-2.31/ . In Proceedings 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