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| author | Bansal, Vipasha Brown, Elizabeth Kendrick, Chelsea Pong, Benjamin Lewis, William D. |
| author_facet | Bansal, Vipasha Brown, Elizabeth Kendrick, Chelsea Pong, Benjamin Lewis, William D. |
| contents | Communication in times of crisis is essential. However, there is often a mismatch between the language of governments, aid providers, doctors, and those to whom they are providing aid. Commercial MT systems are reasonable tools to turn to in these scenarios. But how effective are these tools for translating to and from low resource languages, particularly in the crisis or medical domain? In this study, we evaluate four commercial MT systems using the TICO-19 dataset, which is composed of pandemic-related sentences from a large set of high priority languages spoken by communities most likely to be affected adversely in the next pandemic. We then assess the current degree of ``readiness'' for another pandemic (or epidemic) based on the usability of the output translations. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Is MT Ready for the Next Crisis or Pandemic? Bansal, Vipasha Brown, Elizabeth Kendrick, Chelsea Pong, Benjamin Lewis, William D. Computation and Language Communication in times of crisis is essential. However, there is often a mismatch between the language of governments, aid providers, doctors, and those to whom they are providing aid. Commercial MT systems are reasonable tools to turn to in these scenarios. But how effective are these tools for translating to and from low resource languages, particularly in the crisis or medical domain? In this study, we evaluate four commercial MT systems using the TICO-19 dataset, which is composed of pandemic-related sentences from a large set of high priority languages spoken by communities most likely to be affected adversely in the next pandemic. We then assess the current degree of ``readiness'' for another pandemic (or epidemic) based on the usability of the output translations. |
| title | Is MT Ready for the Next Crisis or Pandemic? |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10082 |