NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task

Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita

Abstract
This paper presents the NICT’s participation to the WMT18 shared news translation task. We participated in the eight translation directions of four language pairs: Estonian-English, Finnish-English, Turkish-English and Chinese-English. For each translation direction, we prepared state-of-the-art statistical (SMT) and neural (NMT) machine translation systems. Our NMT systems were trained with the transformer architecture using the provided parallel data enlarged with a large quantity of back-translated monolingual data that we generated with a new incremental training framework. Our primary submissions to the task are the result of a simple combination of our SMT and NMT systems. Our systems are ranked first for the Estonian-English and Finnish-English language pairs (constraint) according to BLEU-cased.
Anthology ID:
W18-6419
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Belgium, Brussels
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
449–455
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6419
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6419
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Benjamin Marie, Rui Wang, Atsushi Fujita, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2018. NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 449–455, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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