@inproceedings{gaspers-etal-2018-selecting,
    title = "Selecting Machine-Translated Data for Quick Bootstrapping of a Natural Language Understanding System",
    author = "Gaspers, Judith  and
      Karanasou, Penny  and
      Chatterjee, Rajen",
    editor = "Bangalore, Srinivas  and
      Chu-Carroll, Jennifer  and
      Li, Yunyao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 3 (Industry Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans - Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/N18-3017/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/N18-3017",
    pages = "137--144",
    abstract = "This paper investigates the use of Machine Translation (MT) to bootstrap a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system for a new language for the use case of a large-scale voice-controlled device. The goal is to decrease the cost and time needed to get an annotated corpus for the new language, while still having a large enough coverage of user requests. Different methods of filtering MT data in order to keep utterances that improve NLU performance and language-specific post-processing methods are investigated. These methods are tested in a large-scale NLU task with translating around 10 millions training utterances from English to German. The results show a large improvement for using MT data over a grammar-based and over an in-house data collection baseline, while reducing the manual effort greatly. Both filtering and post-processing approaches improve results further."
}