UdS-DFKI@WMT20: Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT for German-Upper Sorbian
Sourav Dutta, Jesujoba Alabi, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Dana Ruiter, Josef van Genabith
Abstract
This paper describes the UdS-DFKI submission to the shared task for unsupervised machine translation (MT) and very low-resource supervised MT between German (de) and Upper Sorbian (hsb) at the Fifth Conference of Machine Translation (WMT20). We submit systems for both the supervised and unsupervised tracks. Apart from various experimental approaches like bitext mining, model pre-training, and iterative back-translation, we employ a factored machine translation approach on a small BPE vocabulary.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.wmt-1.129
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Yvette Graham, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, André Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri
- Venue:
- WMT
- SIG:
- SIGMT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1092–1098
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.129
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sourav Dutta, Jesujoba Alabi, Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Dana Ruiter, and Josef van Genabith. 2020. UdS-DFKI@WMT20: Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT for German-Upper Sorbian. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1092–1098, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- UdS-DFKI@WMT20: Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT for German-Upper Sorbian (Dutta et al., WMT 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2020.wmt-1.129.pdf