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Findings of the WMT 2019 biomedical translation shared task: Evaluation for MEDLINE abstracts and biomedical terminologies
R Bawden, KB Cohen, C Grozea, AJ Yepes, M Kittner, M Krallinger, N Mah, A Névéol, M Neves, F Soares, A Siu, K Verspoor, MV Navarro
Wmt 2019 4th Conference on Machine Translation Proceedings of the Conference | ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5403
Abstract
In the fourth edition of the WMT Biomedical Translation task, we considered a total of six languages, namely Chinese (zh), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Portuguese (pt), and Spanish (es). We performed an evaluation of automatic translations for a total of 10 language directions, namely, zh/en, en/zh, fr/en, en/fr, de/en, en/de, pt/en, en/pt, es/en, and en/es. We provided training data based on MEDLINE abstracts for eight of the 10 language pairs and test sets for all of them. In addition to that, we offered a new sub-task for the translation of terms in biomedical terminologies for the en/es language direction. Higher BLEU scores (close to 0.5) were obtained for the es/en, en/es an..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all participants in the challenges, and especially those who supported us for the manual evaluation, including Melana Uceda (es/en). We also would like to thank the participants Aihu Zhang (team OOM), Antoni Oliver Gonzalez (team MT-UOC-UPF), Fabien Cromi`eres (team KU), Sadaf Abdul-Rauf (team NRPU) and Stefania Duma (team UHH-DS) for providing summaries about their systems, which we included in the manuscript. MK and FS acknowledge support from the encargo de gestion SEAD-BSC-CNS of Plan for the Advancement of Language Technology (Plan TL) and the Interreg Sudoe ICTUSnet project.