@inproceedings{knowles-larkin-2021-nrc,
    title = "{NRC}-{CNRC} Systems for {U}pper {S}orbian-{G}erman and {L}ower {S}orbian-{G}erman Machine Translation 2021",
    author = "Knowles, Rebecca  and
      Larkin, Samuel",
    editor = "Barrault, Loic  and
      Bojar, Ondrej  and
      Bougares, Fethi  and
      Chatterjee, Rajen  and
      Costa-jussa, Marta R.  and
      Federmann, Christian  and
      Fishel, Mark  and
      Fraser, Alexander  and
      Freitag, Markus  and
      Graham, Yvette  and
      Grundkiewicz, Roman  and
      Guzman, Paco  and
      Haddow, Barry  and
      Huck, Matthias  and
      Yepes, Antonio Jimeno  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Kocmi, Tom  and
      Martins, Andre  and
      Morishita, Makoto  and
      Monz, Christof",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2021.wmt-1.107/",
    pages = "999--1008",
    abstract = "We describe our neural machine translation systems for the 2021 shared task on Unsupervised and Very Low Resource Supervised MT, translating between Upper Sorbian and German (low-resource) and between Lower Sorbian and German (unsupervised). The systems incorporated data filtering, backtranslation, BPE-dropout, ensembling, and transfer learning from high(er)-resource languages. As measured by automatic metrics, our systems showed strong performance, consistently placing first or tied for first across most metrics and translation directions."
}