A Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Model for Biomedical Data

Alexandre Bérard, Zae Myung Kim, Vassilina Nikoulina, Eunjeong Lucy Park, Matthias Gallé


Abstract
We release a multilingual neural machine translation model, which can be used to translate text in the biomedical domain. The model can translate from 5 languages (French, German, Italian, Korean and Spanish) into English. It is trained with large amounts of generic and biomedical data, using domain tags. Our benchmarks show that it performs near state-of-the-art both on news (generic domain) and biomedical test sets, and that it outperforms the existing publicly released models. We believe that this release will help the large-scale multilingual analysis of the digital content of the COVID-19 crisis and of its effects on society, economy, and healthcare policies. We also release a test set of biomedical text for Korean-English. It consists of 758 sentences from official guidelines and recent papers, all about COVID-19.
Anthology ID:
2020.nlpcovid19-2.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020
Month:
December
Year:
2020
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Online
Editors:
Karin Verspoor, Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Michael Conway, Berry de Bruijn, Mark Dredze, Rada Mihalcea, Byron Wallace
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NLP-COVID19
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.16
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.16
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Cite (ACL):
Alexandre Bérard, Zae Myung Kim, Vassilina Nikoulina, Eunjeong Lucy Park, and Matthias Gallé. 2020. A Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Model for Biomedical Data. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Model for Biomedical Data (Bérard et al., NLP-COVID19 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.16.pdf
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Code
 naver/covid19-nmt