Towards Readability-Controlled Machine Translation of COVID-19 Texts

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Matthew Shardlow


Abstract
This project investigates the capabilities of Machine Translation models for generating translations at varying levels of readability, focusing on texts related to COVID-19. Whilst it is possible to automatically translate this information, the resulting text may contain specialised terminology, or may be written in a style that is difficult for lay readers to understand. So far, we have collected a new dataset with manual simplifications for English and Spanish sentences in the TICO-19 dataset, as well as implemented baseline pipelines combining Machine Translation and Text Simplification models.
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2022.eamt-1.33
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Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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June
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2022
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Ghent, Belgium
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EAMT
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European Association for Machine Translation
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287–288
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Fernando Alva-Manchego and Matthew Shardlow. 2022. Towards Readability-Controlled Machine Translation of COVID-19 Texts. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 287–288, Ghent, Belgium. European Association for Machine Translation.
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