2019 EMNLP EMNLP 2019

NICT’s participation to WAT 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource NMT

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we describe our submissions to WAT 2019 for the following tasks: English–Tamil translation and Russian–Japanese translation. Our team,“NICT-5”, focused on multilingual domain adaptation and back-translation for Russian–Japanese translation and on simple fine-tuning for English–Tamil translation . We noted that multi-stage fine tuning is essential in leveraging the power of multilingualism for an extremely low-resource language like Russian–Japanese. Furthermore, we can improve the performance of such a low-resource language pair by exploiting a small but in-domain monolingual corpus via back-translation. We managed to obtain second rank in both tasks for all translation directions.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — multi-step fine-tuning
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — multilingual model
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio