Findings of the WMT 2017 Biomedical Translation Shared Task

Automatic translation of documents is an important task in many domains, in- cluding the biological and clinical do- mains. The second edition of the Biomed- ical Translation task in the Conference of Machine Translation focused on the au- tomatic translation of biomedical-related documents between English and various European languages. This year, we ad- dressed ten languages: Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Polish, Por- tuguese, Spanish, Romanian and Swedish. Test sets included both scientific publica- tions (from the Scielo and EDP Sciences databases) and health-related news (from the Cochrane and UK National Health Ser- vice web sites). Seven teams participated in the task, submitting a total of 82 runs. Herein we describe the test sets, participat- ing systems and results of both the auto- matic and manual evaluation of the trans- lations