@inproceedings{macken-etal-2025-machine,
    title = "Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers: Intermediate Findings from the {M}a{TIAS} Project",
    author = {Macken, Lieve  and
      van Hest, Ella  and
      Tezcan, Arda  and
      Lumingu, Micha{\"e}l  and
      Maryns, Katrijn  and
      Wilde, July De},
    editor = {Bouillon, Pierrette  and
      Gerlach, Johanna  and
      Girletti, Sabrina  and
      Volkart, Lise  and
      Rubino, Raphael  and
      Sennrich, Rico  and
      L{\"a}ubli, Samuel  and
      Volk, Martin  and
      Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Miquel  and
      Vandeghinste, Vincent  and
      Moniz, Helena  and
      Szoc, Sara},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 2",
    month = jun,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Geneva, Switzerland",
    publisher = "European Association for Machine Translation",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/mtsummit-25-ingestion/2025.mtsummit-2.10/",
    pages = "77--78",
    ISBN = "978-2-9701897-1-8",
    abstract = "We present key interim findings from the ongoing MaTIAS project, which focuses on developing a multilingual notification system for asylum reception centres in Belgium. This system integrates machine translation (MT) to enable staff to provide practical information to residents in their native language, thus fostering more effective communication. Our discussion focuses on three key aspects: the development of the multilingual messaging platform, the types of messages the system is designed to handle, and the evaluation of potential MT systems for integration."
}