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title = "{S}amsung {R}{\&}{D} Institute {P}hilippines @ {WMT} 2024 Low-resource Languages of {S}pain Shared Task",
author = "Velasco, Dan John and
Rufino, Manuel Antonio and
Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise",
editor = "Haddow, Barry and
Kocmi, Tom and
Koehn, Philipp and
Monz, Christof",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.wmt-1.86",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.wmt-1.86",
pages = "892--900",
abstract = "This paper details the submission of Samsung R{\&}D Institute Philippines (SRPH) Language Intelligence Team (LIT) to the WMT 2024 Low-resource Languages of Spain shared task. We trained translation models for Spanish to Aragonese, Spanish to Aranese/Occitan, and Spanish to Asturian using a standard sequence-to-sequence Transformer architecture, augmenting it with a noisy-channel reranking strategy to select better outputs during decoding. For Spanish to Asturian translation, our method reaches comparable BLEU scores to a strong commercial baseline translation system using only constrained data, backtranslations, noisy channel reranking, and a shared vocabulary spanning all four languages.",
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%A Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise
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%Y Kocmi, Tom
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%D 2024
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Markdown (Informal)
[Samsung R&D Institute Philippines @ WMT 2024 Low-resource Languages of Spain Shared Task](https://aclanthology.org/2024.wmt-1.86) (Velasco et al., WMT 2024)
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