adaptNMT & adaptMLLM — open-source multilingual MT tooling

Open-source, language-agnostic environments for training and fine-tuning (multilingual) neural machine translation on low-resource languages such as Irish.

Research software · 2023

Why it mattered

Widely usable open-source tooling for inclusive translation research.

Scientific / professional contribution

Accessible training/fine-tuning environments lowering the barrier to low-resource MT.

Connected records

• Research theme Multilingual & Culturally Aware AI
• Related publication adaptNMT: An Open-Source, Language-Agnostic Development Environment for Neural Machine Translation — Language Resources and Evaluation, 57(4), 1671–1696, 2023
• Milestone adaptNMT & adaptMLLM — open-source multilingual MT tooling
• Collaborators Séamus Lankford, Andy Way

Related research

• Institutional Co-Lead, Rinn Artificial Intelligence at MTU — Research leadership
• IWSLT 2026 — robust cascaded speech translation (ADAPT–MTU HAI) — Shared-task publication
• ArabicNLP 2025 — winning PalmX system for Arabic cultural QA — Shared-task publication
• PhD in Computer Science (NLP), Le Mans Université — milestone
• Multimodal comparable corpora for machine translation (Natural Language Engineering) — milestone
• Arabic dialect identification & emotion detection (WANLP, SemEval-2019) — milestone

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