Machine Translation Weekly 60: Notes about WMT 2020 Shared Tasks
This week, I will follow up the last week’s post and comment on the news from
this year’s WMT that was collocated with EMNLP. As every year, there were many
shared tasks on various types of translation and evaluation of machine
translation.
News translation task
The news translation task is the oldest task at WMT and sort of a flagship task
providing benchmarks for MT research in the long term. Test sets are created by
manually translating recent news stories and new test sets are released every
year. Originally, this task was targeted on sentence-level translation of high
resource language pairs, but recently some language pairs are evaluated on the
document level, and also a few low-resource language pairs were added.
This year, there were 168 entries from 37