@inproceedings{anastasopoulos-etal-2020-tico,
    title = "{TICO}-19: the Translation Initiative for {CO}vid-19",
    author = {Anastasopoulos, Antonios  and
      Cattelan, Alessandro  and
      Dou, Zi-Yi  and
      Federico, Marcello  and
      Federmann, Christian  and
      Genzel, Dmitriy  and
      Guzm{\'a}n, Franscisco  and
      Hu, Junjie  and
      Hughes, Macduff  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Lazar, Rosie  and
      Lewis, Will  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Niu, Mengmeng  and
      {\"O}ktem, Alp  and
      Paquin, Eric  and
      Tang, Grace  and
      Tur, Sylwia},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID}-19 (Part 2) at {EMNLP} 2020",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5",
    abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst pandemic to strike the world in over a century. Crucial to stemming the tide of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is communicating to vulnerable populations the means by which they can protect themselves. To this end, the collaborators forming the Translation Initiative for COvid-19 (TICO-19) have made test and development data available to AI and MT researchers in 35 different languages in order to foster the development of tools and resources for improving access to information about COVID-19 in these languages. In addition to 9 high-resourced, {''}pivot{''} languages, the team is targeting 26 lesser resourced languages, in particular languages of Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia, whose populations may be the most vulnerable to the spread of the virus. The same data is translated into all of the languages represented, meaning that testing or development can be done for any pairing of languages in the set. Further, the team is converting the test and development data into translation memories (TMXs) that can be used by localizers from and to any of the languages.",
}