Massively Multilingual Text Translation For Low-Resource Languages. (arXiv:2401.16582v1 [cs.CL])

Translation into severely low-resource languages has both the cultural goal
of saving and reviving those languages and the humanitarian goal of assisting
the everyday needs of local communities that are accelerated by the recent
COVID-19 pandemic. In many humanitarian efforts, translation into severely
low-resource languages often does not require a universal translation engine,
but a dedicated text-specific translation engine. For example, healthcare
records, hygienic procedures, government communication, emergency procedures
and religious texts are all limited texts. While generic translation engines …

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