2022
EMNLP
EMNLP 2022
Findings of the WMT’22 Shared Task on Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages
Abstract
AbstractWe present the results of the WMT’22 SharedTask on Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages. The shared taskincluded both a data and a systems track, alongwith additional innovations, such as a focus onAfrican languages and extensive human evaluation of submitted systems. We received 14system submissions from 8 teams, as well as6 data track contributions. We report a largeprogress in the quality of translation for Africanlanguages since the last iteration of this sharedtask: there is an increase of about 7.5 BLEUpoints across 72 language pairs, and the average BLEU scores went from 15.09 to 22.60.
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Interdisciplinary Bridge
- Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
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Hot Topic Early Bird
- translation evaluation
Authors
David Ifeoluwa Adelani,
Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam,
Antonios Anastasopoulos,
Akshita Bhagia,
Marta R. Costa-jussà,
Jesse Dodge,
Fahim Faisal,
Christian Federmann,
Natalia Fedorova,
Francisco Guzmán,
Sergey Koshelev,
Jean Maillard,
Vukosi Marivate,
Jonathan Mbuya,
Alexandre Mourachko,
Safiyyah Saleem,
Holger Schwenk,
Guillaume Wenzek