arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-31
Cross-Lingual Transfer for Machine Translation in Turkic Languages
Omer Burak Cinar, Mehmet Mert Dalkilic, Cagri Toraman
Cross-lingual transfer is central to low-resource machine translation, but its behavior within closely related language families remains insufficiently characterized. We study transfer among five Turkic languages; Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz; using pairwise tr…