Exploring Transfer Learning Pathways for Neural Machine Back Translation of Eskimo-Aleut, Chicham, and Classical Languages

Back translations are an important resource for those reviewing the quality of candidate translations. We explore various transfer learning techniques to create automated back translations in low resource scenarios with neural machine translation models. Results from Eskimo-Aleut, Chicham, and class...

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Main Authors: The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2021, Serianni, Aaron, Whitenack, Daniel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Underline Science Inc. 2021
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48448/51be-ee57
https://underline.io/lecture/39673-exploring-transfer-learning-pathways-for-neural-machine-back-translation-of-eskimo-aleut,-chicham,-and-classical-languages
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Summary:Back translations are an important resource for those reviewing the quality of candidate translations. We explore various transfer learning techniques to create automated back translations in low resource scenarios with neural machine translation models. Results from Eskimo-Aleut, Chicham, and classical languages suggest that transfer learning using related language data improves back translation quality, even when the domain of the related language data does not match the target domain.