Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality 02/2022
After 100 MT Weekly posts (which took me 130 weeks to write), I realized that
weekly blogging is impossible while weekly teaching. So I decided to change the
format of the post and write monthly summaries of what I found most interesting
in machine translation and multilinguality. This is the first issue that
summarizes what interesting happened in February.
Exciting news about WMT
There will be some exciting changes in WMT competitions. WMT is an annual
conference on machine translation that organizes competitions in translation
quality and other tasks related to machine translation. Tom Kocmi, who is now
in charge of the competitions announced on
Twitter that that
main task, previously known as the News Task will contain multiple domains
(news, e-commerce, social, and conversational texts) gets renamed