OSACT6 Dialect to MSA Translation Shared Task Overview

Ashraf Hatim Elneima, AhmedElmogtaba Abdelmoniem Ali Abdelaziz, Kareem Darwish


Abstract
This paper presents the Dialectal Arabic (DA) to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Machine Translation (MT) shared task in the sixth Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT6). The paper describes the creation of the validation and test data and the metrics used; and provides a brief overview of the submissions to the shared task. In all, 29 teams signed up and 6 teams made actual submissions. The teams used a variety of datasets and approaches to build their MT systems. The most successful submission involved using zero-shot and n-shot prompting of chatGPT.
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2024.osact-1.11
Volume:
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) with Shared Tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation @ LREC-COLING 2024
Month:
May
Year:
2024
Address:
Torino, Italia
Editors:
Hend Al-Khalifa, Kareem Darwish, Hamdy Mubarak, Mona Ali, Tamer Elsayed
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OSACT | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA and ICCL
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Pages:
93–97
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.osact-1.11
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Ashraf Hatim Elneima, AhmedElmogtaba Abdelmoniem Ali Abdelaziz, and Kareem Darwish. 2024. OSACT6 Dialect to MSA Translation Shared Task Overview. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) with Shared Tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 93–97, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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OSACT6 Dialect to MSA Translation Shared Task Overview (Elneima et al., OSACT-WS 2024)
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