@inproceedings{wu-etal-2023-uva,
    title = "{U}v{A}-{MT}{'}s Participation in the {WMT} 2023 General Translation Shared Task",
    author = "Wu, Di  and
      Tan, Shaomu  and
      Stap, David  and
      Araabi, Ali  and
      Monz, Christof",
    editor = "Koehn, Philipp  and
      Haddow, Barry  and
      Kocmi, Tom  and
      Monz, Christof",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2023.wmt-1.17/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.wmt-1.17",
    pages = "175--180",
    abstract = "This paper describes the UvA-MT{'}s submission to the WMT 2023 shared task on general machine translation. We participate in the constrained track in two directions: English $\leftrightarrow$ Hebrew. In this competition, we show that by using one model to handle bidirectional tasks, as a minimal setting of Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT), it is possible to achieve comparable results with that of traditional bilingual translation for both directions. By including effective strategies, like back-translation, re-parameterized embedding table, and task-oriented fine-tuning, we obtained competitive final results in the automatic evaluation for both English $\rightarrow$ Hebrew and Hebrew $\rightarrow$ English directions."
}