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Abstract
We participated in the WMT 2016 shared news translation task by building neural translation systems for four language pairs, each trained in both directions: English↔Czech, English↔German, English↔Romanian and English↔Russian. Our systems are based on an attentional encoder-decoder, using BPE subword segmentation for open-vocabulary translation with a fixed vocabulary. We experimented with using automatic back-translations of the monolingual News corpus as additional training data, pervasive dropout, and target-bidirectional models. All reported methods give substantial improvements, and we see improvements of 4.3–11.2 BLEU over our baseline systems. In the human evaluation, our systems were the (tied) best constrained system for 7 out of 8 translation directions in which we participated.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers |
Place of Publication | Berlin, Germany |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 371-376 |
Number of pages | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 12 Aug 2016 |
Event | First Conference on Machine Translation - Berlin, Germany Duration: 11 Aug 2016 → 12 Aug 2016 http://www.statmt.org/wmt16/ |
Conference
Conference | First Conference on Machine Translation |
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Abbreviated title | WMT16 |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Berlin |
Period | 11/08/16 → 12/08/16 |
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Projects
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Translation for Massive Open Online Courses- TraMooc
Koehn, P. & Birch-Mayne, A.
1/02/15 → 31/01/18
Project: Research
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HimL: Health in my Language
Haddow, B., Birch-Mayne, A. & Webber, B.
1/02/15 → 31/01/18
Project: Research
Profiles
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Alexandra Birch-Mayne
- School of Informatics - Reader in Natural Language Processing
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Language, Interaction and Robotics
Person: Academic: Research Active (Research Assistant)