Abstract
In this paper we describe our submissions to WAT 2019 for the following tasks: English–Tamil translation and Russian–Japanese translation. Our team,“NICT-5”, focused on multilingual domain adaptation and back-translation for Russian–Japanese translation and on simple fine-tuning for English–Tamil translation . We noted that multi-stage fine tuning is essential in leveraging the power of multilingualism for an extremely low-resource language like Russian–Japanese. Furthermore, we can improve the performance of such a low-resource language pair by exploiting a small but in-domain monolingual corpus via back-translation. We managed to obtain second rank in both tasks for all translation directions.- Anthology ID:
- D19-5207
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Venue:
- WAT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 76–80
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-5207
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-5207
- Cite (ACL):
- Raj Dabre and Eiichiro Sumita. 2019. NICT’s participation to WAT 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource NMT. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation, pages 76–80, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NICT’s participation to WAT 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource NMT (Dabre & Sumita, WAT 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/D19-5207.pdf