2019 ACL ACL 2019

The University of Maryland’s Kazakh-English Neural Machine Translation System at WMT19

Abstract

AbstractThis 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.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — lexical encoding
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — low-resource language
🐝 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, Speech & Audio