Enhancing Translation Quality: A Comparative Study of Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering in Dialog-Oriented Machine Translation Systems. Insights from the MULTITAN-GML Team

Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Nicolas Ballier, Jean-Baptiste Yunès


Abstract
For this shared task, we have used several machine translation engines to produce translations (en ⇔ fr) by fine-tuning a dialog-oriented NMT engine and having NMT baseline translations post-edited with prompt engineering. Our objectives are to test the effectiveness of a fine-tuning strategy with help of a robust NMT model, to draw out a from-translation-to-post-editing pipeline, and to evaluate the strong and weak points of NMT systems.
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2024.wmt-1.103
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Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Barry Haddow, Tom Kocmi, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz
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Lichao Zhu, Maria Zimina, Behnoosh Namdarzadeh, Nicolas Ballier, and Jean-Baptiste Yunès. 2024. Enhancing Translation Quality: A Comparative Study of Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering in Dialog-Oriented Machine Translation Systems. Insights from the MULTITAN-GML Team. In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1016–1022, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Enhancing Translation Quality: A Comparative Study of Fine-Tuning and Prompt Engineering in Dialog-Oriented Machine Translation Systems. Insights from the MULTITAN-GML Team (Zhu et al., WMT 2024)
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