The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task

Pinzhen Chen; Jindřich Helcl; Ulrich Germann; Laurie Burchell; Nikolay Bogoychev; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Jonas Waldendorf; Alexandra Birch; Kenneth Heafield

The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task

Pinzhen Chen, Jindřich Helcl, Ulrich Germann, Laurie Burchell, Nikolay Bogoychev, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jonas Waldendorf, Alexandra Birch, Kenneth Heafield

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This paper presents the University of Edinburgh's constrained submissions of English-German and English-Hausa systems to the WMT 2021 shared task on news translation. We build En-De systems in three stages: corpus filtering, back-translation, and fine-tuning. For En-Ha we use an iterative back-translation approach on top of pre-trained En-De models and investigate vocabulary embedding mapping.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
Editors	Loic Barrault, Ondrej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Tom Kocmi, Andre Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	104-109
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781954085947
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2021
Event	Sixth Conference on Machine Translation - Punta Cana, Dominican Republic Duration: 10 Nov 2021 → 11 Nov 2021 Conference number: 6 https://www.statmt.org/wmt21/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation
Publisher	ACL
ISSN (Electronic)	2768-0983

Conference

Conference	Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
Abbreviated title	WMT21
Country/Territory	Dominican Republic
City	Punta Cana
Period	10/11/21 → 11/11/21
Internet address	https://www.statmt.org/wmt21/

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ELG- European Language Grid
Germann, U. & Renals, S.
EU government bodies
1/01/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
GoURMET: Global Under-Resourced MEdia Translation
Birch-Mayne, A. & Haddow, B.
European Commission
1/01/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
Bergamot: Browser-based Multilingual Translation
Heafield, K.
European Commission
1/01/19 → 30/06/22
Project: Research

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Chen, P., Helcl, J., Germann, U., Burchell, L., Bogoychev, N., Miceli Barone, A. V., Waldendorf, J., Birch, A., & Heafield, K. (2021). The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task. In L. Barrault, O. Bojar, F. Bougares, R. Chatterjee, M. R. Costa-jussa, C. Federmann, M. Fishel, A. Fraser, M. Freitag, Y. Graham, R. Grundkiewicz, P. Guzman, B. Haddow, M. Huck, A. J. Yepes, P. Koehn, T. Kocmi, A. Martins, M. Morishita, & C. Monz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (pp. 104-109). (Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.4

Chen, Pinzhen ; Helcl, Jindřich ; Germann, Ulrich et al. / The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. editor / Loic Barrault ; Ondrej Bojar ; Fethi Bougares ; Rajen Chatterjee ; Marta R. Costa-jussa ; Christian Federmann ; Mark Fishel ; Alexander Fraser ; Markus Freitag ; Yvette Graham ; Roman Grundkiewicz ; Paco Guzman ; Barry Haddow ; Matthias Huck ; Antonio Jimeno Yepes ; Philipp Koehn ; Tom Kocmi ; Andre Martins ; Makoto Morishita ; Christof Monz. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. pp. 104-109 (Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation).

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Chen, P, Helcl, J, Germann, U , Burchell, L, Bogoychev, N, Miceli Barone, AV, Waldendorf, J, Birch, A & Heafield, K 2021, The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task. in L Barrault, O Bojar, F Bougares, R Chatterjee, MR Costa-jussa, C Federmann, M Fishel, A Fraser, M Freitag, Y Graham, R Grundkiewicz, P Guzman, B Haddow, M Huck, AJ Yepes, P Koehn, T Kocmi, A Martins, M Morishita & C Monz (eds), Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 104-109, Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, 10/11/21. <https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.4>

The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task. / Chen, Pinzhen; Helcl, Jindřich; Germann, Ulrich et al.
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. ed. / Loic Barrault; Ondrej Bojar; Fethi Bougares; Rajen Chatterjee; Marta R. Costa-jussa; Christian Federmann; Mark Fishel; Alexander Fraser; Markus Freitag; Yvette Graham; Roman Grundkiewicz; Paco Guzman; Barry Haddow; Matthias Huck; Antonio Jimeno Yepes; Philipp Koehn; Tom Kocmi; Andre Martins; Makoto Morishita; Christof Monz. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. p. 104-109 (Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation).

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Chen P, Helcl J, Germann U , Burchell L, Bogoychev N, Miceli Barone AV et al. The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task. In Barrault L, Bojar O, Bougares F, Chatterjee R, Costa-jussa MR, Federmann C, Fishel M, Fraser A, Freitag M, Graham Y, Grundkiewicz R, Guzman P, Haddow B, Huck M, Yepes AJ, Koehn P, Kocmi T, Martins A, Morishita M, Monz C, editors, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2021. p. 104-109. (Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation).

The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task

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