@inproceedings{dabre-sumita-2019-nicts,
    title = "{NICT}{'}s participation to {WAT} 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource {NMT}",
    author = "Dabre, Raj  and
      Sumita, Eiichiro",
    editor = "Nakazawa, Toshiaki  and
      Ding, Chenchen  and
      Dabre, Raj  and
      Kunchukuttan, Anoop  and
      Doi, Nobushige  and
      Oda, Yusuke  and
      Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej  and
      Parida, Shantipriya  and
      Goto, Isao  and
      Mino, Hidaya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/D19-5207/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5207",
    pages = "76--80",
    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."
}