Machine translation in asylum reception centres: system selection and multilingual quality evaluation

This paper discusses the selection of a machine translation system for use in asylum reception centres, to translate messages written in English, French, and Dutch into 14 languages, including low-resource ones like Pashto and Somali. Translation quality is assessed through automatic metrics and expert human evaluations to support effective multilingual communication.

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Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traducció
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2025-12-22
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https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tradumatica.522
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Natural Language Processing Techniques
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This paper discusses the selection of a machine translation system for use in asylum reception centres, to translate messages written in English, French, and Dutch into 14 languages, including low-resource ones like Pashto and Somali. Translation quality is assessed through automatic metrics and expert human evaluations to support effective multilingual communication.

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