Alexander Dikov
2026
Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages: English-Tatar
Alexander Dikov
Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)
Alexander Dikov
Proceedings for the Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026)
This paper outlines our winning submission to the English-to-Tatar translation task. We evaluated three strategies: few-shot prompting with Gemini 3 Pro Preview, specialized trans-tokenized Tweeties models, and the RL-distilled TranslateGemma family. Results demonstrate that large commercial models significantly outperform smaller specialized ones in this low-resource setting. Gemini secured first place with a chrF++ score of 56.71, surpassing the open-source baseline of 25.23.