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title = "The {U}niversity of {M}aryland{'}s {K}azakh-{E}nglish Neural Machine Translation System at {WMT}19",
author = "Briakou, Eleftheria and
Carpuat, Marine",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5308",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5308",
pages = "134--140",
abstract = "This paper describes the University of Maryland{'}s submission to the WMT 2019 Kazakh-English news translation task. We study the impact of transfer learning from another low-resource but related language. We experiment with different ways of encoding lexical units to maximize lexical overlap between the two language pairs, as well as back-translation and ensembling. The submitted system improves over a Kazakh-only baseline by +5.45 BLEU on newstest2019.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[The University of Maryland’s Kazakh-English Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5308) (Briakou & Carpuat, 2019)
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