Nict's supervised neural machine translation systems for the wmt19 translation robustness task

R Dabre, E Sumita - Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2 …, 2019aclanthology.org
In this paper we describe our neural machine translation (NMT) systems for Japanese↔
English translation which we submitted to the translation robustness task. We focused on
leveraging transfer learning via fine tuning to improve translation quality. We used a fairly
well established domain adaptation technique called Mixed Fine Tuning (MFT)(Chu et. al.,
2017) to improve translation quality for Japanese↔ English. We also trained bi-directional
NMT models instead of uni-directional ones as the former are known to be quite robust …
Abstract
In this paper we describe our neural machine translation (NMT) systems for Japanese↔ English translation which we submitted to the translation robustness task. We focused on leveraging transfer learning via fine tuning to improve translation quality. We used a fairly well established domain adaptation technique called Mixed Fine Tuning (MFT)(Chu et. al., 2017) to improve translation quality for Japanese↔ English. We also trained bi-directional NMT models instead of uni-directional ones as the former are known to be quite robust, especially in low-resource scenarios. However, given the noisy nature of the in-domain training data, the improvements we obtained are rather modest.
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