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title = "Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings",
author = {Del, Maksym and
T{\"a}ttar, Andre and
Fishel, Mark},
editor = "Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and
Chatterjee, Rajen and
Federmann, Christian and
Fishel, Mark and
Graham, Yvette and
Haddow, Barry and
Huck, Matthias and
Yepes, Antonio Jimeno and
Koehn, Philipp and
Monz, Christof and
Negri, Matteo and
N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie and
Neves, Mariana and
Post, Matt and
Specia, Lucia and
Turchi, Marco and
Verspoor, Karin",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers",
month = oct,
year = "2018",
address = "Belgium, Brussels",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W18-6407",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6407",
pages = "361--367",
abstract = "This paper describes the University of Tartu{'}s submission to the unsupervised machine translation track of WMT18 news translation shared task. We build several baseline translation systems for both directions of the English-Estonian language pair using monolingual data only; the systems belong to the phrase-based unsupervised machine translation paradigm where we experimented with phrase lengths of up to 3. As a main contribution, we performed a set of standalone experiments with compositional phrase embeddings as a substitute for phrases as individual vocabulary entries. Results show that reasonable n-gram vectors can be obtained by simply summing up individual word vectors which retains or improves the performance of phrase-based unsupervised machine tranlation systems while avoiding limitations of atomic phrase vectors.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings
%A Del, Maksym
%A Tättar, Andre
%A Fishel, Mark
%Y Bojar, Ondřej
%Y Chatterjee, Rajen
%Y Federmann, Christian
%Y Fishel, Mark
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Haddow, Barry
%Y Huck, Matthias
%Y Yepes, Antonio Jimeno
%Y Koehn, Philipp
%Y Monz, Christof
%Y Negri, Matteo
%Y Névéol, Aurélie
%Y Neves, Mariana
%Y Post, Matt
%Y Specia, Lucia
%Y Turchi, Marco
%Y Verspoor, Karin
%S Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
%D 2018
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Belgium, Brussels
%F del-etal-2018-phrase
%X This paper describes the University of Tartu’s submission to the unsupervised machine translation track of WMT18 news translation shared task. We build several baseline translation systems for both directions of the English-Estonian language pair using monolingual data only; the systems belong to the phrase-based unsupervised machine translation paradigm where we experimented with phrase lengths of up to 3. As a main contribution, we performed a set of standalone experiments with compositional phrase embeddings as a substitute for phrases as individual vocabulary entries. Results show that reasonable n-gram vectors can be obtained by simply summing up individual word vectors which retains or improves the performance of phrase-based unsupervised machine tranlation systems while avoiding limitations of atomic phrase vectors.
%R 10.18653/v1/W18-6407
%U https://aclanthology.org/W18-6407
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-6407
%P 361-367
Markdown (Informal)
[Phrase-based Unsupervised Machine Translation with Compositional Phrase Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/W18-6407) (Del et al., WMT 2018)
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