Alibaba Launches TransBench for ‘Industrial-Scale’ AI Translation Evaluation – slator.com
In a May 20, 2025 paper, researchers from Alibaba and Beijing Language and Culture University introduced TransBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI translation systems for real-world industrial applications — starting with international e-commerce. The researchers argue that existing benchmarks and automatic metrics fall short when it comes to assessing performance in specialized domains, where […]
Google, Unbabel Expand Key AI Translation Benchmark to 55 Languages with WMT24++ – slator.com
Researchers from Google and Unbabel have unveiled WMT24++, a major expansion of the WMT24 machine translation (MT) benchmark, extending its language coverage from 9 to 55 languages and dialects. The dataset now includes human-written reference translations and post-edits for 46 additional languages, as well as new post-edits of the references for 8 of the original […]
Xiaomi’s Training Recipe for Better Multilingual AI Translation – slator.com
In a February 7, 2025 paper, researchers from Chinese tech company Xiaomi benchmarked the capabilities of open-source large language models (LLMs) with under ten billion parameters for multilingual machine translation (MT) tasks. They proposed the “best data recipe” to enhance AI translation performance. The researchers explained that open-source LLMs have shown improvements in multilingual capabilities, […]