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author = "Libovick{\'y}, Jind{\v{r}}ich and
Fraser, Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.105",
pages = "989--994",
abstract = "We present our submissions to the WMT21 shared task in Unsupervised and Very Low Resource machine translation between German and Upper Sorbian, German and Lower Sorbian, and Russian and Chuvash. Our low-resource systems (German↔Upper Sorbian, Russian↔Chuvash) are pre-trained on high-resource pairs of related languages. We fine-tune those systems using the available authentic parallel data and improve by iterated back-translation. The unsupervised German↔Lower Sorbian system is initialized by the best Upper Sorbian system and improved by iterated back-translation using monolingual data only.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T The LMU Munich Systems for the WMT21 Unsupervised and Very Low-Resource Translation Task
%A Libovický, Jindřich
%A Fraser, Alexander
%S Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
%D 2021
%8 nov
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
%F libovicky-fraser-2021-lmu
%X We present our submissions to the WMT21 shared task in Unsupervised and Very Low Resource machine translation between German and Upper Sorbian, German and Lower Sorbian, and Russian and Chuvash. Our low-resource systems (German↔Upper Sorbian, Russian↔Chuvash) are pre-trained on high-resource pairs of related languages. We fine-tune those systems using the available authentic parallel data and improve by iterated back-translation. The unsupervised German↔Lower Sorbian system is initialized by the best Upper Sorbian system and improved by iterated back-translation using monolingual data only.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.105
%P 989-994
Markdown (Informal)
[The LMU Munich Systems for the WMT21 Unsupervised and Very Low-Resource Translation Task](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.105) (Libovický & Fraser, WMT 2021)
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