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- Title
From Zero to Production: Baltic-Ukrainian Machine Translation Systems to Aid Refugees.
- Authors
BERGMANIS, Toms; PINNIS, Mārcis
- Abstract
In this paper, we examine the development and usage of six low-resource machine translation systems translating between the Ukrainian language and each of the official languages of the Baltic states. We developed these systems in reaction to the escalating Ukrainian refugee crisis caused by the Russian military aggression in Ukraine in the hope that they might be helpful for refugees and public administrations. Now, two months after MT systems were made public, we analyze their usage patterns and statistics. Our findings show that the Latvian-Ukrainian and Lithuanian-Ukrainian systems are integrated into the public services of Baltic states, leading to more than 127 million translated sentences for the Lithuanian-Ukrainian system. Motivated by these findings, we further enhance our MT systems by better Ukrainian toponym translation and publish an improved version of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian system.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; MACHINE translating; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; LANGUAGE policy; REFUGEES; MUNICIPAL services
- Publication
Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
2255-8942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22364/bjmc.2022.10.3.01