turkic-xwmt

To establish a comprehensive and challenging evaluation benchmark for Machine Translation in Turkic languages, we translate a test set originally introduced in WMT 2020 News Translation Task for English-Russian. The original dataset is profesionally translated and consists of sentences from news articles that are both English and Russian-centric. We adopt this evaluation set (X-WMT) and begin efforts to translate it into several Turkic languages. The current version of X-WMT includes covers 8 Turkic languages and 88 language directions with a minimum of 300 sentences per language direction.