@inproceedings{ahmed-etal-2024-bangla,
    title = "The {B}angla/{B}engali Seed Dataset Submission to the {WMT}24 Open Language Data Initiative Shared Task",
    author = "Ahmed, Firoz  and
      Venkateswaran, Nitin  and
      Moeller, Sarah",
    editor = "Haddow, Barry  and
      Kocmi, Tom  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Monz, Christof",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2024.wmt-1.42/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.wmt-1.42",
    pages = "556--566",
    abstract = "We contribute a seed dataset for the Bangla/Bengali language as part of the WMT24 Open Language Data Initiative shared task. We validate the quality of the dataset against a mined and automatically aligned dataset (NLLBv1) and two other existing datasets of crowdsourced manual translations. The validation is performed by investigating the performance of state-of-the-art translation models fine-tuned on the different datasets after controlling for training set size. Machine translation models fine-tuned on our dataset outperform models tuned on the other datasets in both translation directions (English-Bangla and Bangla-English). These results confirm the quality of our dataset. We hope our dataset will support machine translation for the Bangla/Bengali community and related low-resource languages."
}