Findings of the WMT 2024 Shared Task Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain: Blending Rule-Based and Neural Systems

Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Perez-Ortiz, Aaron Galiano Jimenez, Antoni Oliver


Abstract
This paper presents the results of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24) Shared Task “Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain”’. The task focused on the development of machine translation systems for three language pairs: Spanish-Aragonese, Spanish-Aranese, and Spanish-Asturian. 17 teams participated in the shared task with a total of 87 submissions. The baseline system for all language pairs was Apertium, a rule-based machine translation system that still performs competitively well, even in an era dominated by more advanced non-symbolic approaches. We report and discuss the results of the submitted systems, highlighting the strengths of both neural and rule-based approaches.
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2024.wmt-1.57
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Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Barry Haddow, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz
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WMT
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684–698
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Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Perez-Ortiz, Aaron Galiano Jimenez, and Antoni Oliver. 2024. Findings of the WMT 2024 Shared Task Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain: Blending Rule-Based and Neural Systems. In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 684–698, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Findings of the WMT 2024 Shared Task Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain: Blending Rule-Based and Neural Systems (Sánchez-Martínez et al., WMT 2024)
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