English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019

Rui Wang, Haipeng Sun, Kehai Chen, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita


Abstract
This paper presents the NICT’s participation (team ID: NICT) in the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT-2019) shared translation task, specifically Myanmar (Burmese) - English task in both translation directions. We built neural machine translation (NMT) systems for these tasks. Our NMT systems were trained with language model pretraining. Back-translation technology is adopted to NMT. Our NMT systems rank the third in English-to-Myanmar and the second in Myanmar-to-English according to BLEU score.
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D19-5209
Volume:
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Toshiaki Nakazawa, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Nobushige Doi, Yusuke Oda, Ondřej Bojar, Shantipriya Parida, Isao Goto, Hidaya Mino
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WAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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90–93
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-5209
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5209
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Rui Wang, Haipeng Sun, Kehai Chen, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita. 2019. English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation, pages 90–93, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019 (Wang et al., WAT 2019)
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