CUNI Systems for the WMT 22 Czech-Ukrainian Translation Task

Martin Popel, Jindřich Libovický, Jindřich Helcl


Abstract
We present Charles University submissions to the WMT 22 GeneralTranslation Shared Task on Czech-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Czech machine translation. We present two constrained submissions based on block back-translation and tagged back-translation and experiment with rule-basedromanization of Ukrainian. Our results show that the romanization onlyhas a minor effect on the translation quality.Further, we describe Charles Translator,a system that was developed in March 2022 as a response to the migrationfrom Ukraine to the Czech Republic. Compared to our constrained systems,it did not use the romanization and used some proprietary data sources.
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2022.wmt-1.30
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Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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352–357
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Martin Popel, Jindřich Libovický, and Jindřich Helcl. 2022. CUNI Systems for the WMT 22 Czech-Ukrainian Translation Task. In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 352–357, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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