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The TALP-UPC System Description for WMT20 News Translation Task: Multilingual Adaptation for Low Resource MT

2020-11-01WMT (EMNLP) 2020Unverified0· sign in to hype

Carlos Escolano, Marta R. Costa-jussà, José A. R. Fonollosa

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In this article, we describe the TALP-UPC participation in the WMT20 news translation shared task for Tamil-English. Given the low amount of parallel training data, we resort to adapt the task to a multilingual system to benefit from the positive transfer from high resource languages. We use iterative backtranslation to fine-tune the system and benefit from the monolingual data available. In order to measure the effectivity of such methods, we compare our results to a bilingual baseline system.

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