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Ammon Shurtz

2 accepted papers

2024

Kreyòl-MT: Building MT for Latin American, Caribbean and Colonial African Creole Languages

NAACL 2024long

A majority of language technologies are tailored for a small number of high-resource languages, while relatively many low-resource languages are neglected. One such group, Creole languages, have long been marginalized in academic study, though their speakers could benefit from machine translation (M…

2024

The Effects of Pretraining in Video-Guided Machine Translation

COLING 2024main

We propose an approach that improves the performance of VMT (Video-guided Machine Translation) models, which integrate text and video modalities. We experiment with the MAD (Movie Audio Descriptions) dataset, a new dataset which contains transcribed audio descriptions of movies. We find that the MAD…