[albertzeyer]

Note that very recently Google has done something very similar: "Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages": https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03983 https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/24-new-languages-google-tr...

The Facebook paper has some direct comparison to that work.

[jkw]

Evaluation was important to us, and we really wanted to have a benchmark that covers all 200 languages