#machinetranslation — Public Fediverse posts

NiemanLab: Studies on AI transcription and translation in journalism reveal “low-resource” language gap, new report finds. “For this new report, the group combed through the work of social scientists, linguists, and computer scientists. One of the report’s topline findings: there is a major divide between the accessibility and accuracy of AI transcription and translation tools when […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/27/niemanlab-studies-on-ai-transcription-and-translation-in-journalism-reveal-low-resource-language-gap-new-report-finds/

The seventh conference on Machine Translation, #WMT22,

has a "Shared Task": Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for [24] African Languages https://statmt.org/wmt22/large-scale-multilingual-translation-task.html

"We do so by introducing a high quality benchmark, paired with a fair and rigorous evaluation procedure."

#MachineTranslation #AfricanLanguages #LowResourceLanguages