Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages

Rachel Bawden; Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio; Christian Grozea; Iñigo  Jauregi Unanue; Antonio Jimeno Yepes; Nancy Mah; David Martinez; Aurélie Névéol; Mariana Neves; Maite Oronoz; Olatz Perez de Viñaspre; Massimo Piccardi; Roland Roller; Amy Siu; Philippe  Thomas; Federica Vezzani; Maika Vicente Navarro; Dina Wiemann; Lana Yeganova

Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages

Rachel Bawden, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Christian Grozea, Iñigo Jauregi Unanue, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Nancy Mah, David Martinez, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Maite Oronoz, Olatz Perez de Viñaspre, Massimo Piccardi, Roland Roller, Amy Siu, Philippe Thomas, Federica Vezzani, Maika Vicente Navarro, Dina Wiemann, Lana Yeganova

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Machine translation of scientific abstracts and terminologies has the potential to support health professionals and biomedical researchers in some of their activities. In the fifth edition of the WMT Biomedical Task, we addressed a total of eight language pairs. Five language pairs were previously addressed in past editions of the shared task, namely, English/German, English/French, English/Spanish, English/Portuguese, and English/Chinese. Three additional languages pairs were also introduced this year: English/Russian, English/Italian, and English/Basque. The task addressed the evaluation of both scientific abstracts (all language pairs) and terminologies (English/Basque only). We received submissions from a total of 20 teams. For recurring language pairs, we observed an improvement in the translations in terms of automatic scores and qualitative evaluations, compared to previous years.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Machine Translation
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	658–685
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Print)	978-1-948087-81-0
Publication status	Published - 20 Nov 2020
Event	Fifth Conference on Machine Translation - Online Conference Duration: 19 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020 http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/

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Conference	Fifth Conference on Machine Translation
Abbreviated title	WMT 2020
City	Online Conference
Period	19/11/20 → 20/11/20
Internet address	http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/

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Bawden, R., Di Nunzio, G. M., Grozea, C., Jauregi Unanue, I., Jimeno Yepes, A., Mah, N., Martinez, D., Névéol, A., Neves, M., Oronoz, M., de Viñaspre, O. P., Piccardi, M., Roller, R., Siu, A., Thomas, P., Vezzani, F., Vicente Navarro, M., Wiemann, D., & Yeganova, L. (2020). Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Machine Translation (pp. 658–685). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.wmt-1.76

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Bawden, R, Di Nunzio, GM, Grozea, C, Jauregi Unanue, I, Jimeno Yepes, A, Mah, N, Martinez, D, Névéol, A, Neves, M, Oronoz, M, de Viñaspre, OP, Piccardi, M, Roller, R, Siu, A, Thomas, P, Vezzani, F, Vicente Navarro, M, Wiemann, D & Yeganova, L 2020, Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages. in Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 658–685, Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, Online Conference, 19/11/20. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.wmt-1.76>

Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages. / Bawden, Rachel; Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria; Grozea, Christian et al.

Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. p. 658–685.

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