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University of Florida Gators use retrieval-augmented translation for low-resource languages

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Researchers from the University of Florida Gators have developed a novel approach for low-resource machine translation, specifically targeting North-Eastern Indian languages. Their system, submitted to the WMT26 shared task, utilizes a retrieval-augmented many-shot translation pipeline. At inference, the Gemini 2.5 Flash model translates input text by conditioning on parallel examples retrieved using BM25 from a language-specific training bank, without requiring model fine-tuning. AI

IMPACT This research could improve translation capabilities for under-resourced languages, potentially enabling wider access to information and communication.

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University of Florida Gators use retrieval-augmented translation for low-resource languages

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Aashish Dhawan, Christopher Driggers-Ellis, Dzmitry Kasinets, Christan Grant, Daisy Zhe Wang ·

    BM25-Augmented Many-Shot Translation for Low-Resource North-Eastern Indian Languages

    arXiv:2608.13722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes the University of Florida Gators submission to the WMT26 Low-Resource Indic Language Translation shared task. We adapt the retrieval-augmented many-shot translation pipeline from our AmericasNLP 2026 system to t…

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