Findings from the Bambara - French Machine Translation Competition (BFMT 2023)
Ninoh Agostinho Da Silva, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Alexander Antonov, Panga Azazia Kamate, Moussa Coulibaly, Mason Del Rio, Yacouba Diarra, Sebastian Diarra, Chris Emezue, Joel Hamilcaro, Christopher M. Homan, Alexander Most, Joseph Mwatukange, Peter Ohue, Michael Pham, Abdoulaye Sako, Sokhar Samb, Yaya Sy, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Yacine Zahidi, Sarah Luger
Abstract
Orange Silicon Valley hosted a low-resource machine translation (MT) competition with monetary prizes. The goals of the competition were to raise awareness of the challenges in the low-resource MT domain, improve MT algorithms and data strategies, and support MT expertise development in the regions where people speak Bambara and other low-resource languages. The participants built Bambara to French and French to Bambara machine translation systems using data provided by the organizers and additional data resources shared amongst the competitors. This paper details each team’s different approaches and motivation for ongoing work in Bambara and the broader low-resource machine translation domain.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.loresmt-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2023)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Editors:
- Atul Kr. Ojha, Chao-hong Liu, Ekaterina Vylomova, Flammie Pirinen, Jade Abbott, Jonathan Washington, Nathaniel Oco, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Xiaobing Zhao
- Venue:
- LoResMT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 110–122
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.loresmt-1.9
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.loresmt-1.9
- Cite (ACL):
- Ninoh Agostinho Da Silva, Tunde Oluwaseyi Ajayi, Alexander Antonov, Panga Azazia Kamate, Moussa Coulibaly, Mason Del Rio, Yacouba Diarra, Sebastian Diarra, Chris Emezue, Joel Hamilcaro, Christopher M. Homan, Alexander Most, Joseph Mwatukange, Peter Ohue, Michael Pham, Abdoulaye Sako, Sokhar Samb, Yaya Sy, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, et al.. 2023. Findings from the Bambara - French Machine Translation Competition (BFMT 2023). In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2023), pages 110–122, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Findings from the Bambara - French Machine Translation Competition (BFMT 2023) (Agostinho Da Silva et al., LoResMT 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2023.loresmt-1.9.pdf