WebNLG Challenge 2023: Domain Adaptive Machine Translation for Low-Resource Multilingual RDF-to-Text Generation (WebNLG 2023)
Kancharla Aditya Hari, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anubhav Sharma, Vasudeva Varma
Abstract
This paper presents our submission to the WebNLG Challenge 2023 for generating text in several low-resource languages from RDF-triples. Our submission focuses on using machine translation for generating texts in Irish, Maltese, Welsh and Russian. While a simple and straightfoward approach, recent works have shown that using monolingual models for inference for multilingual tasks with the help of machine translation (translate-test) can out-perform multilingual models and training multilingual models on machine-translated data (translate-train) through careful tuning of the MT component. Our results show that this approach demonstrates competitive performance for this task even with limited data.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.mmnlg-1.11
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge (MM-NLG 2023)
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Editors:
- Albert Gatt, Claire Gardent, Liam Cripwell, Anya Belz, Claudia Borg, Aykut Erdem, Erkut Erdem
- Venues:
- MMNLG | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 93–94
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2023.mmnlg-1.11/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Kancharla Aditya Hari, Bhavyajeet Singh, Anubhav Sharma, and Vasudeva Varma. 2023. WebNLG Challenge 2023: Domain Adaptive Machine Translation for Low-Resource Multilingual RDF-to-Text Generation (WebNLG 2023). In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge (MM-NLG 2023), pages 93–94, Prague, Czech Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- WebNLG Challenge 2023: Domain Adaptive Machine Translation for Low-Resource Multilingual RDF-to-Text Generation (WebNLG 2023) (Aditya Hari et al., MMNLG 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2023.mmnlg-1.11.pdf