# Enhancing Entity Aware Machine Translation with Multi-task Learning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18318 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.18318/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 13 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 23 Jun 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Entity-aware machine translation (EAMT) is a complicated task in natural language processing due to not only the shortage of translation data related to the entities needed to translate but also the complexity in the context needed to process while translating those entities. In this paper, we propose a method that applies multi-task learning to optimize the performance of the two subtasks named entity recognition and machine translation, which improves the final performance of the Entity-aware machine translation task. The result and analysis are performed on the dataset provided by the organizer of Task 2 of the SemEval 2025 competition.