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This AI Paper from Apple Unveils AlignInstruct: Pioneering Solutions for Unseen Languages and Low-Resource Challenges in Machine Translation

Marktechpost

Developed by researchers from Apple, aiming to enhance machine translation, AlignInstruct represents a paradigm shift in tackling data scarcity. The success of AlignInstruct in enhancing machine translation for low-resource languages is a testament to the importance of innovative approaches in computational linguistics.

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FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Google Research AI blog

Also, region-unaware MT systems tend to favor whichever variety has more data available online, which disproportionately affects speakers of under-resourced language varieties. However, the vast majority of available training data doesn’t specify what regional variety the translation is in.