Low-Resource MT

MT: Machine Translation

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Overview

The field studies how to translate languages that lack the large parallel-text collections and language technologies available for widely used languages, helping broaden access to information and services. Common approaches include building curated corpora, adapting multilingual models such as NLLB and mT5, transferring knowledge from related languages, and creating synthetic training data through back-translation or language-model generation. Researchers also explore retrieval-based prompting, linguistic resources such as dictionaries and grammars, and reinforcement learning with semantic or quality-estimation rewards. Progress remains uneven: results depend heavily on data quality, language variety, script and tokenization, while metric reliability, data contamination, and the gap between automatic scores and human judgment remain open concerns.

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87 papers15 papers in the last four weeks, up 67% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Climbing the Ladder: Automating Data Pipelines and Reproducing Baselines in Low-Resource Settings

    Oct 21, 2026Donato Meoli, Eryk WdowiakBack-TranslationMachine Translation

    Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy · Arba Sicula Brooklyn, NY, USA

  2. Towards English - Mizo Legal Machine Translation: Corpus Creation, Analysis, and Benchmarks

    Oct 21, 2026Telem Joyson Singh, Sanabam Boyshana, Sanasam Ranbir Singh +1Machine TranslationLegal NLP

    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

  3. Towards Figurative Language Understanding in Moroccan Darija: An Evaluation of Large Language Models

    Oct 18, 2026Jihad R'baiti, Youssef Hmamouche, Emmanuele Chersoni +2Figurative Language UnderstandingMachine Translation

    International Artificial Intelligence Center of Morocco, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco. · Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. · Division of Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. +1

  4. Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation

    Oct 18, 2026Nizar Yahya HabashMachine TranslationLow-Resource MT

  5. GLOSS-MT: Controllable Low-Resource Machine Translation with an Editable Dictionary

    Oct 17, 2026Mich-Seth Owusu, Stephen E. Moore, Akwasi Asare +4Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

  6. Training with Ciphers to Enhance In-Context Terminology Learning For Translation from Rare Languages

    Oct 17, 2026Deevyanshu Malu, Deeptanshu Malu, Sunita SarawagiMachine TranslationIn-Context Learning

    IIT Bombay

  7. MAS-Bai: Linguistically Informed Adaptive Multi-Agent Translation for Bowen-Script Bai

    Oct 16, 2026Jingting Zheng, Hong Ren, Yuehan Cui +2Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China

  8. Unfragmenting Nawatl NMT: Single-Variant Specialization for Masewalkopa

    Oct 15, 2026Luis A. Mercado-Campos, Alexis PalmerBack-TranslationMachine Translation

    Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder

  9. Translation Circuit Discovery and Targeted Optimization for Low-Resource Multilingual Translation

    Oct 15, 2026Atai Waris Khan, Abdullah Mazhar, Raghu Kumar +1Multilingual Language ModelsLow-Resource MT

    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

  10. Back-Translation Still Matters: Leveraging Monolingual Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation with LLMs

    Oct 13, 2026Divyanshu Bathla, Parag Singla, Jitin SinglaBack-TranslationLow-Resource MT

    IIT Roorkee · IIT Delhi

  11. bharatSetu: a 1M x 22 bridge for indic translation

    Oct 11, 2026Haq Nawaz Malik, Nahfid Nissar, Faizan IqbalLow-Resource MTMachine Translation

  12. The Constitution Speaks Nheengatu: An Open MT System and Reproducible Corpus Pipeline for the Amazonian Língua Geral

    Oct 10, 2026Fabrício Carraro, Rodolfo Joel Zevallos, Rodrigo Gonçalves de Souza +2Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo · Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Tribunal Regional Federal da 1a Região +2

  13. Fact over Fiction: Detection of Pathological Hallucinations in Sinhala-to-English Neural Machine Translation

    Oct 8, 2026Navam Obeysekara, Nevidu JayatillekeHallucination DetectionHallucination in Language Models

    School of Computing, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

  14. Investigating Model Compression for Neural Machine Translation in the Biomedical Domain

    Oct 4, 2026Maria Zafar, Souhail Bakkali, Rejwanul HaqueModel CompressionMachine Translation

    South East Technological University, Carlow, Ireland · IRISA, France

  15. Precision over Scale: A Polish-Silesian Benchmark and a Translation System Outperforming Open-Source and Commercial Models

    Oct 1, 2026Grzegorz Kulik, Mikołaj Pokrywka, Adam Jatowt +1Low-Resource MTMachine Translation

    NASK National Research Institute, Poland · University of Innsbruck, Austria

  16. COILD: An Indic-Centric Parallel Corpus and Benchmark for Machine Translation Across Indian Languages

    Sep 23, 2026Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Nitin Kumar Mishra, Palash Pratim Dutta +22Low-Resource MTMachine Translation

    IIT Patna · IIT Delhi · IIT Guwahati +3

  17. The Ongiini-Eval-OW Benchmark: A Concept Paper for the Planned Benchmarking of Machine Translation and Large Language Models on Oshindonga and Oshikwanyama

    Sep 22, 2026Sebastian KüpersMT EvaluationLow-Resource MT

    Common Intelligence Foundation · Common Intelligence Foundation, Estonia Ongiini AI programme, Namibia

  18. Machine Translation between English and Syriac (East Syriac Dialect) using Statistical Machine Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Hadiana Sliwa, Hossein HassaniLow-Resource MTLow-Resource Language Processing

    University of Kurdistan Hewlêr Kurdistan Region - Iraq

  19. TeochewBench: A Human-Reviewed Benchmark for Teochew Hanzi Translation

    Sep 16, 2026Jianan WuMultilingual Language Model EvaluationLow-Resource MT

    Peking University

  20. ReMova: Fine-tuning LLMs for English to Belarusian translation

    Sep 14, 2026Mikita Pilinka, Aliaksandr Kliujeŭ, David Samuel +1LLM Fine-TuningLow-Resource MT

    University of Oslo Department of Informatics · Independent Researcher

  21. Measuring the Cost of Variety Conflation in Multilingual MT Evaluation: Adding Mozambican Xichangana, Nyanja and Sena to FLORES+

    Sep 12, 2026Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Delfina Lázaro Mateus, Manuel Valente MangueAfrican Language ProcessingMT Evaluation

    Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade Lúrio, Bairro Eduardo Mondlane, Pemba, Mozambique · Universidade Eduardo Mondlane - Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Av. Samora Machel, Maputo, Mozambique

  22. The University of Melbourne WMT 2026 CreoleMT Submission: A Domain-Balanced Approach to Low-Resource Pacific Creole Machine Translation

    Sep 12, 2026Raphaël Merx, Nick Thieberger, Ekaterina VylomovaMachine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    The University of Melbourne

  23. Rosetta at AlexandriaX-2026: LoRA-Adapted NileChat for Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation

    Sep 9, 2026Nada Esmaeil, Fathima Rena, Sibi Subhash +4Arabic NLPLow-Resource MT

    Tanta University, Egypt · Alliance University, India · Robusta Studio, Egypt +2

  24. Translation as a Decision Space: A Multi-Agent Perspective on Low-Resource Dialect Generation

    Sep 3, 2026Hasan Alkhder, Mohammad Abboush, Igor Tchappi +2Interpretable MLLow-Resource MT

  25. Confident but Wrong: A Constrained Decoding Diagnostic for Low-Resource Automatic Post-Editing

    Aug 30, 2026Isuru Wijesiri, Nisansa de Silva, Kavindu Warnakulasuriya +2Low-Resource MTMT Evaluation

    WSO2, Sri Lanka · Dept. of CSE, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka · National University of Singapore +1

  26. Benchmarking Arabic--Russian Machine Translation: A Comparison of Fine-tuned NMT and Few-shot LLMs under Rich Morphology and Low Lexical Overlap

    Aug 26, 2026Mullosharaf K. ArabovMachine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    Kazan Federal University, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technologies, Kazan, Russia

  27. EnSiTa - A Trilingual Multi-Domain Parallel Dataset and Benchmark for Domain-Specific Machine Translation

    Aug 25, 2026Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa de Silva, Aloka Fernando +8Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    Massey University · University of Moratuwa · National University of Singapore +3

  28. Statistical Machine Translation Systems of English-Pnar Language Pair : Some Insights of the Emperical Study

    Aug 24, 2026Edawanbiang Dhar Surmila Thokchom, Thoudam Doren SinghMachine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    Human Language Technology Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Sohra, Meghalaya-793108, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Sohra, Meghalaya-793108, India

  29. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM: High-Quality Data Scaling For Low-Resource Machine Translation

    Aug 19, 2026Milan Gritta, Patrik Lambert, Jihye Back +1Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    Tether AI Research

  30. BM25-Augmented Many-Shot Translation for Low-Resource North-Eastern Indian Languages

    Aug 13, 2026Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Dzmitry Kasinets +2Machine TranslationLow-Resource MT

    University of Florida