English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019
Rui Wang, Haipeng Sun, Kehai Chen, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
Abstract
This paper presents the NICT’s participation (team ID: NICT) in the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT-2019) shared translation task, specifically Myanmar (Burmese) - English task in both translation directions. We built neural machine translation (NMT) systems for these tasks. Our NMT systems were trained with language model pretraining. Back-translation technology is adopted to NMT. Our NMT systems rank the third in English-to-Myanmar and the second in Myanmar-to-English according to BLEU score.- Anthology ID:
- D19-5209
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Toshiaki Nakazawa, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Nobushige Doi, Yusuke Oda, Ondřej Bojar, Shantipriya Parida, Isao Goto, Hidaya Mino
- Venue:
- WAT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 90–93
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-5209
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-5209
- Cite (ACL):
- Rui Wang, Haipeng Sun, Kehai Chen, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2019. English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation, pages 90–93, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019 (Wang et al., WAT 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-bitext-workshop/D19-5209.pdf