2025
Alligators All Around: Mitigating Lexical Confusion in Low-resource Machine Translation
NAACL 2025short
Current machine translation (MT) systems for low-resource languages have a particular failure mode: When translating words in a given domain, they tend to confuse words within that domain. So, for example, “lion” might be translated as “alligator”, and “orange” might be rendered as “purple.” We prop…