WMT 2021 - Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages

The Multilingual Low-Resource Translation task for Indo-European Languages, part of the EMNLP 2021 Conference, focused on improving machine translation in the cultural heritage domain for North-Germanic and Romance languages. It aimed to explore data transferability across related languages, prioritizing low-resource languages while allowing training in high-resource languages. The task had two subtasks: translating Europeana thesis abstracts and descriptions for North-Germanic languages, and translating Wikipedia cultural heritage articles for Romance languages. The task encouraged using diverse data sources and provided additional resources like lexicons and validation sets. Evaluation was based on translation quality, emphasizing multilinguality and resource efficiency in machine translation.