AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
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This paper introduces AfriMTE, human translation-evaluation data with simplified annotation guidelines for 13 African languages, and AfriCOMET, a learned machine translation quality metric built on an African-centric multilingual encoder. It addresses the difficulty of measuring translation progress for under-resourced African languages and reports improved correlation with human judgment over existing metrics.
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- Research
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- Free / open
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- 馃實 Pan-African
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- 5 Jul 2026
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african-languages
machine-translation
comet
mt-evaluation