HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 2: Entity-Aware Fine-tuning vs. Prompt Engineering in Entity-Aware Machine Translation

Abdulhamid Abubakar, Hamidatu Abdulkadir, Rabiu Ibrahim, Abubakar Auwal, Ahmad Wali, Amina Umar, Maryam Bala, Sani Abdullahi Sani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Vukosi Marivate


Abstract
This paper presents our findings for SemEval 2025 Task 2, a shared task on entity-aware machine translation (EA-MT). The goal of this task is to develop translation models that can accurately translate English sentences into target languages, with a particular focus on handling named entities, which often pose challenges for MT systems. The task covers 10 target languages with English as the source. In this paper, we describe the different systems we employed, detail our results, and discuss insights gained from our experiments.
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2025.semeval-1.120
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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Abdulhamid Abubakar, Hamidatu Abdulkadir, Rabiu Ibrahim, Abubakar Auwal, Ahmad Wali, Amina Umar, Maryam Bala, Sani Abdullahi Sani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, and Vukosi Marivate. 2025. HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 2: Entity-Aware Fine-tuning vs. Prompt Engineering in Entity-Aware Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 885–892, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HausaNLP at SemEval-2025 Task 2: Entity-Aware Fine-tuning vs. Prompt Engineering in Entity-Aware Machine Translation (Abubakar et al., SemEval 2025)
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