Machine Translation

Omnilingual SONAR: Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Sentence Embeddings Bridging Massively Multilingual Text and Speech

We introduce OmniSONAR, a family of omnilingual cross-lingual and cross-modal sentence embedding models spanning 4,000+ language varieties and natively supporting text, speech, …

The Omnilingual SONAR Team
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Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages

We present OMT, the first MT system supporting more than 1,600 languages, where 1B–8B parameter specialized models match or exceed a 70B LLM baseline, with strong generalization to …

The Omnilingual MT Team
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BOUQuET: dataset, Benchmark and Open initiative for Universal Quality Evaluation in Translation

We introduce BOUQuET, a multi-way, multicentric, multi-domain, paragraph-level dataset and benchmark for machine translation evaluation, designed for crowd-sourced expansion to …

Pierre Andrews
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Improving Language and Modality Transfer in Translation by Character-level Modeling

We propose a character-based translation model to improve adaptability to new languages and modalities, particularly for low-resource scenarios. Our method achieves …

Ioannis Tsiamas
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The TALP-UPC Participation in WMT21 News Translation Task: an mBART-based NMT Approach

Our submission to the WMT 2021 news translation shared task for German-French translation demonstrates that fine-tuning a pretrained mBART50 model significantly outperforms a …

Carlos Escolano
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