Benchmarking Arabic--Russian Machine Translation: A Comparison of Fine-tuned NMT and Few-shot LLMs under Rich Morphology and Low Lexical Overlap

Arabic-Russian machine translation (MT) remains under-explored due to the rich morphology of Arabic and low lexical overlap between the two languages. We benchmark seven fine-tuned neural machine translation (NMT) models against four few-shot large language models (LLMs) on a 20k/5k/5k split of a ne