Translation Based
Translation-based research focuses on improving the accuracy and fluency of machine translation (MT) systems, particularly for low-resource languages and challenging linguistic phenomena like idioms and proper names. Current research employs transformer-based neural networks and explores techniques like matrix completion for lexicon induction, data augmentation using storyboards, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning to address data scarcity. These advancements aim to enhance cross-lingual understanding, improve the accessibility of information across languages, and enable more effective applications in diverse fields such as healthcare (e.g., simplifying prescription instructions) and cross-lingual information retrieval.
Papers
Killing Two Flies with One Stone: An Attempt to Break LLMs Using English->Icelandic Idioms and Proper Names
Bjarki Ármannsson, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Atli Jasonarson, Steinþór Steingrímsson
Cogs in a Machine, Doing What They're Meant to Do -- The AMI Submission to the WMT24 General Translation Task
Atli Jasonarson, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Bjarki Ármannsson, Steinþór Steingrímsson