@inproceedings{novokshanov-2026-data,
    title = "Data-Centric Approach at the {L}o{R}es{MT} 2026 {T}urkic Translation Challenge: {R}ussian-{K}yrgyz",
    author = "Novokshanov, Dmitry",
    editor = "Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Liu, Chao-hong  and
      Vylomova, Ekaterina  and
      Pirinen, Flammie  and
      Washington, Jonathan  and
      Oco, Nathaniel  and
      Zhao, Xiaobing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages ({L}o{R}es{MT} 2026)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/manual-author-scripts/2026.loresmt-1.22/",
    pages = "225--230",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-366-1",
    abstract = "We describe our submission to the Turkic languages translation challenge at LoResMT 2026, which focuses on translation from Russian into Kyrgyz. Our approach leverages parallel data, synthetic translations, a comprehensive filtering pipeline and a four-stage curriculum learning strategy. We compare our system with contemporary baselines and present the model that achieves a chrF++ score of 49.1 and takes first place in the competition."
}