Latest Development in the FoTran Project – Scaling Up Language Coverage in Neural Machine Translation Using Distributed Training with Language-Specific Components

Raúl Vázquez, Michele Boggia, Alessandro Raganato, Niki A. Loppi, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Jörg Tiedemann


Abstract
We describe the enhancement of a multilingual NMT toolkit developed as part of the FoTran project. We devise our modular attention-bridge model, which connects language-specific components through a shared network layer. The system now supports distributed training over many nodes and GPUs in order to substantially scale up the number of languages that can be included in a modern neural translation architecture. The model enables the study of emerging language-agnostic representations and also provides a modular toolkit for efficient machine translation.
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2022.eamt-1.45
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Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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June
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2022
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Ghent, Belgium
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Helena Moniz, Lieve Macken, Andrew Rufener, Loïc Barrault, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christophe Declercq, Maarit Koponen, Ellie Kemp, Spyridon Pilos, Mikel L. Forcada, Carolina Scarton, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Joke Daems, Arda Tezcan, Bram Vanroy, Margot Fonteyne
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311–312
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Raúl Vázquez, Michele Boggia, Alessandro Raganato, Niki A. Loppi, Stig-Arne Grönroos, and Jörg Tiedemann. 2022. Latest Development in the FoTran Project – Scaling Up Language Coverage in Neural Machine Translation Using Distributed Training with Language-Specific Components. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 311–312, Ghent, Belgium. European Association for Machine Translation.
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Latest Development in the FoTran Project – Scaling Up Language Coverage in Neural Machine Translation Using Distributed Training with Language-Specific Components (Vázquez et al., EAMT 2022)
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