HW-TSC Translation Systems for the WMT22 Chat Translation Task

Jinlong Yang, Zongyao Li, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhengzhe Yu, Zhiqiang Rao, Shaojun Li, Zhanglin Wu, Yuhao Xie, Yuanchang Luo, Ting Zhu, Yanqing Zhao, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, Ying Qin


Abstract
This paper describes the submissions of Huawei Translation Services Center (HW-TSC) to WMT22 chat translation shared task on English-Germany (en-de) bidirection with results of zore-shot and few-shot tracks. We use the deep transformer architecture with a lager parameter size. Our submissions to the WMT21 News Translation task are used as the baselines. We adopt strategies such as back translation, forward translation, domain transfer, data selection, and noisy forward translation in task, and achieve competitive results on the development set. We also test the effectiveness of document translation on chat tasks. Due to the lack of chat data, the results on the development set show that it is not as effective as sentence-level translation models.
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2022.wmt-1.92
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Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
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December
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2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
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Philipp Koehn, Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Tom Kocmi, André Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Marco Turchi, Marcos Zampieri
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WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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962–968
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Jinlong Yang, Zongyao Li, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Xiaoyu Chen, Zhengzhe Yu, Zhiqiang Rao, Shaojun Li, Zhanglin Wu, Yuhao Xie, Yuanchang Luo, Ting Zhu, Yanqing Zhao, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, and Ying Qin. 2022. HW-TSC Translation Systems for the WMT22 Chat Translation Task. In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 962–968, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HW-TSC Translation Systems for the WMT22 Chat Translation Task (Yang et al., WMT 2022)
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