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TICO-19: the Translation Initiative for Covid-19

arXiv 2007.01788 ↗First posted 3 Jul 2020cs.CL cs.DL cs.IRcited by 67

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The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst pandemic to strike the world in over a century. Crucial to stemming the tide of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is communicating to vulnerable populations the means by which they can protect themselves. To this end, the collaborators forming the Translation Initiative for COvid-19 (TICO-19) have made test and development data available to AI and MT researchers in 35 different languages in order to foster the development of tools and resources for improving access to information about COVID-19 in these languages. In addition to 9 high-resourced, "pivot" languages, the team is targeting 26 lesser resourced languages, in particular languages of Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia, whose populations may be the most vulnerable to the spread of the virus. The same data is translated into all of the languages represented, meaning that testing or development can be done for any pairing of languages in the set. Further, the team is converting the test and development data into translation memories (TMXs) that can be used by localizers from and to any of the languages.

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  3. 2021Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languagescited by 133
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  6. 2022A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translationcited by 97
  7. 2023Adaptive Machine Translation with Large Language Modelscited by 58
  8. 2024CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Modelcited by 52
  9. 2023Steering Large Language Models for Machine Translation with Finetuning and In-Context Learningcited by 48
  10. 2024LLaMAX: Scaling Linguistic Horizons of LLM by Enhancing Translation Capabilities Beyond 100 Languagescited by 47
  11. 2021Domain Adaptation and Multi-Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation: A Surveycited by 46
  12. 2021The Low-Resource Double Bind: An Empirical Study of Pruning for Low-Resource Machine Translationcited by 46
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  3. 2024The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilitiescited by 22
  4. 2023Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Adaptive Machine Translationcited by 21
  5. 2024In-Context Example Selection via Similarity Search Improves Low-Resource Machine Translationcited by 21
  6. 2021Adapting High-resource NMT Models to Translate Low-resource Related Languages without Parallel Datacited by 17
  7. 2022SMaLL-100: Introducing Shallow Multilingual Machine Translation Model for Low-Resource Languagescited by 16
  8. 2024EMMA-500: Enhancing Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Modelscited by 16
  9. 2021On the Evaluation of Machine Translation for Terminology Consistencycited by 15
  10. 2025Charting the Landscape of African NLP: Mapping Progress and Shaping the Road Aheadcited by 15
  11. 2025Compositional Translation: A Novel LLM-based Approach for Low-resource Machine Translationcited by 13
  12. 2022Domain-Specific Text Generation for Machine Translationcited by 12
  13. 2025AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languagescited by 11
  14. 2025Multilingual Contextualization of Large Language Models for Document-Level Machine Translationcited by 11
  15. 2021Findings of the LoResMT 2021 Shared Task on COVID and Sign Language for Low-resource Languagescited by 10
  16. 2023CODET: A Benchmark for Contrastive Dialectal Evaluation of Machine Translationcited by 9
  17. 2021As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translationcited by 8
  18. 2022Fixing MoE Over-Fitting on Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Machine Translationcited by 8
  19. 2025Translation in the Hands of Many:Centering Lay Users in Machine Translation Interactionscited by 8
  20. 2025Beyond Decoder-only: Large Language Models Can be Good Encoders for Machine Translationcited by 8
  21. 2024Low-resource neural machine translation with morphological modelingcited by 7
  22. 2024State of NLP in Kenya: A Surveycited by 7
  23. 2025AskQE: Question Answering as Automatic Evaluation for Machine Translationcited by 7
  24. 2026EuroLLM-22B: Technical Reportcited by 7
  25. 2022Graphemic Normalization of the Perso-Arabic Scriptcited by 6
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  27. 2021Designing Language Technologies for Social Good: The Road not Takencited by 5
  28. 2025Should I Share this Translation? Evaluating Quality Feedback for User Reliance on Machine Translationcited by 5
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  30. 2024MEXMA: Token-level objectives improve sentence representationscited by 4
  31. 2025Parallel Corpora for Machine Translation in Low-resource Indic Languages: A Comprehensive Reviewcited by 4
  32. 2022Domain Adaptation of Machine Translation with Crowdworkerscited by 3
  33. 2024Reranking Laws for Language Generation: A Communication-Theoretic Perspectivecited by 3
  34. 2024Domain-Specific Translation with Open-Source Large Language Models: Resource-Oriented Analysiscited by 3
  35. 2025Data Augmentation With Back translation for Low Resource languages: A case of English and Lugandacited by 3
  36. 2025FilBench: Can LLMs Understand and Generate Filipino?cited by 3
  37. 2023When Does Monolingual Data Help Multilingual Translation: The Role of Domain and Model Scalecited by 2
  38. 2024KpopMT: Translation Dataset with Terminology for Kpop Fandomcited by 2

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