low-resource languages

Reference-Less Evaluation of Machine Translation: Navigating Through the Resource-Scarce Scenarios

Reference-less evaluation of machine translation, or Quality Estimation (QE), is vital for low-resource language pairs where high-quality references are often unavailable. In this study, we investigate segment-level QE methods comparing encoder-based …

ALOPE: Adaptive Layer Optimization for Translation Quality Estimation using Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Quality Estimation (QE) for Machine Translation (MT), which assesses the quality of a source-target pair without relying on …

Prompt-based Explainable Quality Estimation for English-Malayalam

The aim of this project was to curate data for the English-Malayalam language pair for the tasks of Quality Estimation (QE) and Automatic Post-Editing (APE) of Machine Translation. Whilst the primary aim of the project was to create a dataset for a …

When LLMs Struggle: Reference-less Translation Evaluation for Low-resource Languages

This paper investigates the reference-less evaluation of machine translation for low-resource language pairs, known as quality estimation (QE). Segment-level QE is a challenging cross-lingual language understanding task that provides a quality score …

Together We Can: Multilingual Automatic Post-Editing for Low-Resource Languages

This exploratory study investigates the potential of multilingual Automatic Post-Editing (APE) systems to enhance the quality of machine translations for low-resource Indo-Aryan languages. Focusing on two closely related language pairs, …

Connecting Ideas in 'Lower-Resource' Scenarios: NLP for National Varieties, Creoles and Other Low-resource Scenarios

Despite excellent results on benchmarks over a small subset of languages, large language models struggle to process text from languages situated in 'lower-resource' scenarios such as dialects/sociolects (national or social varieties of a language), …

Optimizing Quality Estimation for Low-Resource Language Translations: Exploring the Role of Language Relatedness

Quality Estimation (QE) is vital to determine the effectiveness of MT systems. This paper investigates QE for machine translation (MT) for low-resource Indic languages. We analyse the influence of language relatedness within linguistic families and …

Findings of the WMT 2023 Shared Task on Quality Estimation

We report the results of the WMT 2023 shared task on Quality Estimation, in which the challenge is to predict the quality of the output of neural machine translation systems at the word and sentence levels, without access to reference translations. …