Second AmericasNLP Competition

Machine translation for indigenous languages of the Americas

The Second AmericasNLP Competition took place online on 7th December, 2022, at NeurIPS 2022. The competition focused on creating machine translation systems for indigenous languages from the Americas.

turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/st.html

Tasks

Participants built systems for three tasks.

Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
Machine translation (text-to-text translation)
Speech-to-text translation

Language pairs

Bribri–Spanish
Guaraní–Spanish
Kotiria–Portuguese
Wa’ikhana–Portuguese
Quechua–Spanish

Keynote speakers

Hilaria Cruz
Sebastian Ruder

Organisers

Manuel Mager
Katharina Kann
Abteen Ebrahimi
Arturo Oncevay
Rodolfo Zevallos
Adam Wiemerslage
Pavel Denisov
John E. Ortega
Kristine Stenzel
Aldo Alvarez
Luis Chiruzzo
Rolando Coto-Solano
Hilaria Cruz
Sofía Flores-Solórzano
Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Alexis Palmer
Ngoc Thang Vu

Important dates


23 May	Release of pilot data and evaluation script
6 June	Release of training and development data and baseline systems
20 September	Release of test input/start of evaluation phase (ASR and Speech-to-text)
14 October	Submission of translations by participants/end of competition (ASR and Speech-to-text translation)
15 September	Release of test input/start of evaluation phase (MT tasks)
25 October	Submission of translations by participants/end of competition (Machine Translation)
29 October	Announcements of results
7 December	Competition track meeting at NeurIPS (virtual event)