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Machine Translation for Low Resource Turkic Languages

test.csv for Kazakh is updated

Russian-Bashkir Machine Translation

Соревнование

English-Tatar Machine Translation

Russian-Kazakh Machine Translation

English-Chuvash Machine Translation

Russian-Kyrgyz Machine Translation

This competition is held as part of [LoResMT 2026](https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/).

For all the languages we use [ChrF++](https://statmt.org/wmt17/pdf/WMT70.pdf) metric for evaluation. We use SacreBLEU package [implemenation of ChrF++](http://github.com/mjpost/sacrebleu/blob/master/sacrebleu/metrics/chrf.py).

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

Rules of the participation:
* You can use any hardware, and there is no limit on inference time.
* You can use any open-weight model to provide its generations as submission.
* You can train your model on any data, including the data generated by commercial systems.
* After the competition ends you are required to publish used data and weights of the resulting model.
* We do not restrict the participation of the commercial systems, but they cannot receive the prize.

Please be aware of that some commercial machine translation or LLM services (namely, DeepL, Google Translate, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini) disallow the use of
their output for training other translation or AI models.


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).

Welcome to competition on Machine Translation for Bashkir, Chuvash, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tatar Languages.

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