Steve Sloto


2023

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Findings of the WMT 2023 Shared Task on Parallel Data Curation
Steve Sloto | Brian Thompson | Huda Khayrallah | Tobias Domhan | Thamme Gowda | Philipp Koehn
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation

Building upon prior WMT shared tasks in document alignment and sentence filtering, we posed the open-ended shared task of finding the best subset of possible training data from a collection of Estonian-Lithuanian web data. Participants could focus on any portion of the end-to-end data curation pipeline, including alignment and filtering. We evaluated results based on downstream machine translation quality. We release processed Common Crawl data, along with various intermediate states from a strong baseline system, which we believe will enable future research on this topic.

2019

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Dual Monolingual Cross-Entropy Delta Filtering of Noisy Parallel Data
Amittai Axelrod | Anish Kumar | Steve Sloto
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 3: Shared Task Papers, Day 2)

We introduce a purely monolingual approach to filtering for parallel data from a noisy corpus in a low-resource scenario. Our work is inspired by Junczysdowmunt:2018, but we relax the requirements to allow for cases where no parallel data is available. Our primary contribution is a dual monolingual cross-entropy delta criterion modified from Cynical data selection Axelrod:2017, and is competitive (within 1.8 BLEU) with the best bilingual filtering method when used to train SMT systems. Our approach is featherweight, and runs end-to-end on a standard laptop in three hours.

2018

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Leveraging Data Resources for Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval Using Statistical Machine Translation
Steve Sloto | Ann Clifton | Greg Hanneman | Patrick Porter | Donna Gates | Almut Hildebrand | Anish Kumar
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 2: User Track)