High Frequent In-domain Words Segmentation and Forward Translation for the WMT21 Biomedical Task

Bardia Rafieian, Marta R. Costa-jussa


Abstract
This paper reports the optimization of using the out-of-domain data in the Biomedical translation task. We firstly optimized our parallel training dataset using the BabelNet in-domain terminology words. Afterward, to increase the training set, we studied the effects of the out-of-domain data on biomedical translation tasks, and we created a mixture of in-domain and out-of-domain training sets and added more in-domain data using forward translation in the English-Spanish task. Finally, with a simple bpe optimization method, we increased the number of in-domain sub-words in our mixed training set and trained the Transformer model on the generated data. Results show improvements using our proposed method.
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2021.wmt-1.87
Volume:
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
Month:
November
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
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
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WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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863–867
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.87
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Bardia Rafieian and Marta R. Costa-jussa. 2021. High Frequent In-domain Words Segmentation and Forward Translation for the WMT21 Biomedical Task. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 863–867, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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