@inproceedings{wang-etal-2020-tencent,
title = "Tencent {AI} Lab Machine Translation Systems for {WMT}20 Chat Translation Task",
author = "Wang, Longyue and
Tu, Zhaopeng and
Wang, Xing and
Ding, Li and
Ding, Liang and
Shi, Shuming",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.60",
pages = "483--491",
abstract = "This paper describes the Tencent AI Lab{'}s submission of the WMT 2020 shared task on chat translation in English-German. Our neural machine translation (NMT) systems are built on sentence-level, document-level, non-autoregressive (NAT) and pretrained models. We integrate a number of advanced techniques into our systems, including data selection, back/forward translation, larger batch learning, model ensemble, finetuning as well as system combination. Specifically, we proposed a hybrid data selection method to select high-quality and in-domain sentences from out-of-domain data. To better capture the source contexts, we exploit to augment NAT models with evolved cross-attention. Furthermore, we explore to transfer general knowledge from four different pre-training language models to the downstream translation task. In general, we present extensive experimental results for this new translation task. Among all the participants, our German-to-English primary system is ranked the second in terms of BLEU scores.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="wang-etal-2020-tencent">
<titleInfo>
<title>Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for WMT20 Chat Translation Task</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Longyue</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Wang</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Zhaopeng</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Tu</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Xing</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Wang</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Li</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Ding</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Liang</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Ding</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Shuming</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Shi</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2020-nov</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation</title>
</titleInfo>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Online</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>This paper describes the Tencent AI Lab’s submission of the WMT 2020 shared task on chat translation in English-German. Our neural machine translation (NMT) systems are built on sentence-level, document-level, non-autoregressive (NAT) and pretrained models. We integrate a number of advanced techniques into our systems, including data selection, back/forward translation, larger batch learning, model ensemble, finetuning as well as system combination. Specifically, we proposed a hybrid data selection method to select high-quality and in-domain sentences from out-of-domain data. To better capture the source contexts, we exploit to augment NAT models with evolved cross-attention. Furthermore, we explore to transfer general knowledge from four different pre-training language models to the downstream translation task. In general, we present extensive experimental results for this new translation task. Among all the participants, our German-to-English primary system is ranked the second in terms of BLEU scores.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">wang-etal-2020-tencent</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.60</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2020-nov</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>483</start>
<end>491</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for WMT20 Chat Translation Task
%A Wang, Longyue
%A Tu, Zhaopeng
%A Wang, Xing
%A Ding, Li
%A Ding, Liang
%A Shi, Shuming
%S Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation
%D 2020
%8 nov
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F wang-etal-2020-tencent
%X This paper describes the Tencent AI Lab’s submission of the WMT 2020 shared task on chat translation in English-German. Our neural machine translation (NMT) systems are built on sentence-level, document-level, non-autoregressive (NAT) and pretrained models. We integrate a number of advanced techniques into our systems, including data selection, back/forward translation, larger batch learning, model ensemble, finetuning as well as system combination. Specifically, we proposed a hybrid data selection method to select high-quality and in-domain sentences from out-of-domain data. To better capture the source contexts, we exploit to augment NAT models with evolved cross-attention. Furthermore, we explore to transfer general knowledge from four different pre-training language models to the downstream translation task. In general, we present extensive experimental results for this new translation task. Among all the participants, our German-to-English primary system is ranked the second in terms of BLEU scores.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.60
%P 483-491
Markdown (Informal)
[Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for WMT20 Chat Translation Task](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.60) (Wang et al., WMT 2020)
ACL