The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems

Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck, Alexander Fraser


Abstract
We describe LMU Munich’s unsupervised machine translation systems for English↔German translation. These systems were used to participate in the WMT18 news translation shared task and more specifically, for the unsupervised learning sub-track. The systems are trained on English and German monolingual data only and exploit and combine previously proposed techniques such as using word-by-word translated data based on bilingual word embeddings, denoising and on-the-fly backtranslation.
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W18-6428
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Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
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Belgium, Brussels
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EMNLP | WMT | WS
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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513–521
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6428
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6428
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Dario Stojanovski, Viktor Hangya, Matthias Huck, and Alexander Fraser. 2018. The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 513–521, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The LMU Munich Unsupervised Machine Translation Systems (Stojanovski et al., 2018)
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