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TIM-UNIGE Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain for WMT24

Presented atMiami, Florida, USA, November 15-16, 2024
PublisherMiami, Florida, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2024-11
First online date2024-11
Abstract

We present the results of our constrained submission to the WMT 2024 shared task, which focuses on translating from Spanish into two low-resource languages of Spain: Aranese (spa-arn) and Aragonese (spa-arg). Our system integrates real and synthetic data generated by large language models (e.g., BLOOMZ) and rule-based Apertium translation systems. Built upon the pre-trained NLLB system, our translation model utilizes a multistage approach, progressively refining the initial model through the sequential use of different datasets, starting with large-scale synthetic or crawled data and advancing to smaller, high-quality parallel corpora. This approach resulted in BLEU scores of 30.1 for Spanish to Aranese and 61.9 for Spanish to Aragonese.

Keywords
  • Low-resource
  • Machine translation
  • Iberian languages
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MUTAL, Jonathan David, ORMAECHEA GRIJALBA, Lucía. TIM-UNIGE Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain for WMT24. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation. Miami, Florida, USA. Miami, Florida, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. p. 862–870. doi: 10.18653/v1/2024.wmt-1.82
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