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title = "Apertium-sme-eng for {WMT}2026 shared task{---}creating new pair by crossing dictionaries and translating rules",
author = "Pirinen, Flammie",
editor = "Haddow, Barry and
Kocmi, Tom and
Koehn, Philipp and
Monz, Christof",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.76/",
pages = "1391--1396",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-474-3",
abstract = "In this article I describe an experiment on creation of a new rule-based machine translation model build on two existing models. I built Apertium system between North S{\'a}mi and English based on existing translation models between North S{\'a}mi and Finnish, and Finnish and English. There were two expert-driven processes involved in building of the system: firstly crossing and validating the bilingual dictionaries and secondly translating and modifying the grammatical and structural rules. I breifly explain why there are no pre-existing systems for this language pair and what limitations and ethical issues are related to it. I will also evaluate some of the training and development corpora provided in the shared task to elaborate on the problem that automatic low quality machine translation can cause to vulnerable minority languages."
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%A Pirinen, Flammie
%Y Haddow, Barry
%Y Kocmi, Tom
%Y Koehn, Philipp
%Y Monz, Christof
%S Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
%D 2026
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Markdown (Informal)
[Apertium-sme-eng for WMT2026 shared task—creating new pair by crossing dictionaries and translating rules](https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.76/) (Pirinen, WMT 2026)
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