Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence

Einar Freyr Sigurðsson; Steinþór Steingrímsson; Bjarki Ármannsson; Atli Jasonarson; Helga Svala Sigurðardóttir; Jón Markússon

Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence

Einar Sigurdsson, Steinthór Steingrímsson, Bjarki Ármannsson, Atli Jasonarson, Helga Svala Sigurdardottir, Jón Markússon

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We present a test suite intended to study how well different machine translation systems do when translating syntactic constructions found in English that do not have a direct equivalent in Icelandic. We manually evaluate the translations and compare it to an automatic evaluation. Whereas the results demonstrate that the best-performing models achieve high accuracy in various categories, they still struggle with others.

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Cite (ACL):: Einar Sigurdsson, Steinthór Steingrímsson, Bjarki Ármannsson, Atli Jasonarson, Helga Svala Sigurdardottir, and Jón Markússon. 2026. Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1577–1593, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence](https://aclanthology.org/2026.wmt-main.91/) (Sigurdsson et al., WMT 2026)

Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence (Sigurdsson et al., WMT 2026)

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Einar Sigurdsson, Steinthór Steingrímsson, Bjarki Ármannsson, Atli Jasonarson, Helga Svala Sigurdardottir, and Jón Markússon. 2026. Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1577–1593, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.