LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System Description

Vladimir Panov


Abstract
We describe our submission to the shared task LoResMT 2026, which involved translating from low-resource Turkic languages Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tatar from English or Russian. We submitted runs for the English-Chuvash language pair using Neural machine translation (NMT). Our approach focused on systematic experimentation with diverse model architectures and an emphasis on optimizing inference-time parameters. The key findings indicate that a large-scale, specialized multilingual translation model, combined with targeted data preprocessing and careful generation tuning, yielded the best performance, achieving a chrF++ score of 29.67 on the public test set.
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2026.loresmt-1.23
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Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)
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March
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2026
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Rabat, Morocco
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Atul Kr. Ojha, Chao-hong Liu, Ekaterina Vylomova, Flammie Pirinen, Jonathan Washington, Nathaniel Oco, Xiaobing Zhao
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LoResMT | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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231–234
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Vladimir Panov. 2026. LoResMT 2026 Shared Task System Description. In Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026), pages 231–234, Rabat, Morocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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