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title = "Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution",
author = "Nguyen, Toan Q. and
Murray, Kenton and
Chiang, David",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand (online)",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwslt-1.33",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.iwslt-1.33",
pages = "287--293",
abstract = "In this paper, we investigate the driving factors behind concatenation, a simple but effective data augmentation method for low-resource neural machine translation. Our experiments suggest that discourse context is unlikely the cause for concatenation improving BLEU by about +1 across four language pairs. Instead, we demonstrate that the improvement comes from three other factors unrelated to discourse: context diversity, length diversity, and (to a lesser extent) position shifting.",
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%T Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution
%A Nguyen, Toan Q.
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%A Chiang, David
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Markdown (Informal)
[Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution](https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwslt-1.33) (Nguyen et al., IWSLT 2021)
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