2020
Conference Paper
Title

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

Abstract
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.
Author(s)
Bawden, Rachel
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria
Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Grozea, Cristian  
Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS  
Jauregi Unanue, Inigo
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Jimeno Yepes, Antonio
IBM Research Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Mah, Nancy Lynne  orcid-logo
Fraunhofer-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik IBMT  
Martinez, David
IBM Research Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Névéol, Aurélie
LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
Neves, Mariana
German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) / German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
Oronoz, Maite
XA NLP Group, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
Perez-de-Viñaspre, Olatz
IXA NLP Group, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain
Piccardi, Massimo
University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Roller, Roland
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Siu, Amy
Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Thomas, Philippe
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany
Vezzani, Federica
Dept. of Linguistic and Literary Studies University of Padua, Italy
Vicente Navarro, Maika
Maika Spanish Translator, Melbourne, Australia
Wiemann, Dina
Novartis AG, Basel, Switzerland
Yeganova, Lana
NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, USA
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