Findings of the 2019 conference on machine translation (WMT19)

L Barrault, O Bojar, MR Costa-Jussa, C Federmann… - 2019 - zora.uzh.ch
This paper presents the results of the premier shared task organized alongside the
Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) 2019. Participants were asked to build machine …

Survey of low-resource machine translation

B Haddow, R Bawden, AVM Barone, J Helcl… - Computational …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
We present a survey covering the state of the art in low-resource machine translation (MT)
research. There are currently around 7,000 languages spoken in the world and almost all …

Findings of the 2021 conference on machine translation (WMT21)

F Akhbardeh, A Arkhangorodsky, M Biesialska… - Proceedings of the sixth …, 2021 - cris.fbk.eu
This paper presents the results of the news translation task, the multilingual low-resource
translation for Indo-European languages, the triangular translation task, and the automatic …

Iterative translation refinement with large language models

P Chen, Z Guo, B Haddow, K Heafield - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.03856, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models have shown surprising performances in understanding instructions
and performing natural language tasks. In this paper, we propose iterative translation …

Bidimensional leaderboards: Generate and evaluate language hand in hand

J Kasai, K Sakaguchi, RL Bras, L Dunagan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Natural language processing researchers have identified limitations of evaluation
methodology for generation tasks, with new questions raised about the validity of automatic …

Hw-tsc's submissions to the wmt 2022 general machine translation shared task

D Wei, Z Rao, Z Wu, S Li, Y Luo, Y Xie… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the submissions of Huawei Translate Services Center (HW-TSC) to the
WMT 2022 General Machine Translation Shared Task. We participate in 6 language pairs …

Hw-tsc at iwslt2023: Break the quality ceiling of offline track via pre-training and domain adaptation

Z Li, Z Wu, Z Rao, X YuHao, G JiaXin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents HW-TSC's submissions to the IWSLT 2023 Offline Speech Translation
task, including speech translation of talks from English to German, Chinese, and Japanese …

Treating General MT Shared Task as a Multi-Domain Adaptation Problem: HW-TSC's Submission to the WMT23 General MT Shared Task

Z Wu, D Wei, Z Li, Z Yu, S Li, X Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper presents the submission of Huawei Translate Services Center (HW-TSC) to the
WMT23 general machine translation (MT) shared task, in which we participate in Chinese↔ …

Hw-tsc translation systems for the wmt22 biomedical translation task

Z Wu, J Yang, Z Rao, Z Yu, D Wei, X Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the translation systems trained by Huawei translation services center
(HW-TSC) for the WMT22 biomedical translation task in five language pairs: English↔ …

Subword-delimited downsampling for better character-level translation

L Edman, A Toral, G van Noord - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01304, 2022 - arxiv.org
Subword-level models have been the dominant paradigm in NLP. However, character-level
models have the benefit of seeing each character individually, providing the model with …