TermMind: Alibaba’s WMT21 Machine Translation Using Terminologies Task Submission

Ke Wang, Shuqin Gu, Boxing Chen, Yu Zhao, Weihua Luo, Yuqi Zhang


Abstract
This paper describes our work in the WMT 2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies Shared Task. We participate in the shared translation terminologies task in English to Chinese language pair. To satisfy terminology constraints on translation, we use a terminology data augmentation strategy based on Transformer model. We used tags to mark and add the term translations into the matched sentences. We created synthetic terms using phrase tables extracted from bilingual corpus to increase the proportion of term translations in training data. Detailed pre-processing and filtering on data, in-domain finetuning and ensemble method are used in our system. Our submission obtains competitive results in the terminology-targeted evaluation.
Anthology ID:
2021.wmt-1.85
Volume:
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Loic Barrault, Ondrej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Tom Kocmi, Andre Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz
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WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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851–856
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Ke Wang, Shuqin Gu, Boxing Chen, Yu Zhao, Weihua Luo, and Yuqi Zhang. 2021. TermMind: Alibaba’s WMT21 Machine Translation Using Terminologies Task Submission. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 851–856, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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