Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 shared task on open machine translation for indigenous languages of the Americas

M Mager, A Oncevay, A Ebrahimi, J Ortega… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the results of the 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for
Indigenous Languages of the Americas. The shared task featured two independent tracks …

AmericasNLI: Machine translation and natural language inference systems for Indigenous languages of the Americas

K Kann, A Ebrahimi, M Mager, A Oncevay… - Frontiers in Artificial …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Little attention has been paid to the development of human language technology for truly
low-resource languages—ie, languages with limited amounts of digitally available text data …

Neural machine translation for the indigenous languages of the Americas: An introduction

M Mager, R Bhatnagar, G Neubig, NT Vu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Neural models have drastically advanced state of the art for machine translation (MT)
between high-resource languages. Traditionally, these models rely on large amounts of …

NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages

AL Tonja, F Balouchzahi, S Butt, O Kolesnikova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The paper focuses on the marginalization of indigenous language communities in the face
of rapid technological advancements. We highlight the cultural richness of these languages …

Fixing Rogue Memorization in Many-to-One Multilingual Translators of Extremely-Low-Resource Languages by Rephrasing Training Samples

P Cavalin, PH Domingues, C Pinhanez… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we study the fine-tuning of pre-trained large high-resource language models
(LLMs) into many-to-one multilingual machine translators for extremely-low-resource …