NICT's supervised neural machine translation systems for the WMT19 news translation task

R Dabre, K Chen, B Marie, R Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2 …, 2019aclanthology.org
In this paper, we describe our supervised neural machine translation (NMT) systems that we
developed for the news translation task for Kazakh↔ English, Gujarati↔ English, Chinese↔
English, and English→ Finnish translation directions. We focused on leveraging multilingual
transfer learning and back-translation for the extremely low-resource language pairs:
Kazakh↔ English and Gujarati↔ English translation. For the Chinese↔ English translation,
we used the provided parallel data augmented with a large quantity of back-translated …
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our supervised neural machine translation (NMT) systems that we developed for the news translation task for Kazakh↔ English, Gujarati↔ English, Chinese↔ English, and English→ Finnish translation directions. We focused on leveraging multilingual transfer learning and back-translation for the extremely low-resource language pairs: Kazakh↔ English and Gujarati↔ English translation. For the Chinese↔ English translation, we used the provided parallel data augmented with a large quantity of back-translated monolingual data to train state-of-the-art NMT systems. We then employed techniques that have been proven to be most effective, such as back-translation, fine-tuning, and model ensembling, to generate the primary submissions of Chinese↔ English. For English→ Finnish, our submission from WMT18 remains a strong baseline despite the increase in parallel corpora for this year’s task.
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