Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages

This competition is held as part of LoResMT 2026.

For all the languages we use ChrF++ metric for evaluation. We use SacreBLEU package implemenation of ChrF++.

Important deadlines:

• Submissions are accepted until 11 January 23:59 AoE
• After that you will have two days to choose you final submit - up to 13 January 23:59 AoE
• Team members can join until 4 January 23:59 AoE

For now only Russian-Bashkir pair is available, but we will add others shortly.

If you have any questions regarding the competition please contact the organizers thourgh email: loresmt@googlegroups.com or join a Telegram group: https://t.me/TurkicLoResMTParticipants

We expert all the participant to submit a short paper describing their solution in two weeks after the competition ends (27 January 23:59 AoE).