The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task

Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Rico Sennrich


Abstract
The University of Edinburgh made submissions to all 14 language pairs in the news translation task, with strong performances in most pairs. We introduce new RNN-variant, mixed RNN/Transformer ensembles, data selection and weighting, and extensions to back-translation.
Anthology ID:
W18-6412
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Belgium, Brussels
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
399–409
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6412
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6412
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Cite (ACL):
Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, and Rico Sennrich. 2018. The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 399–409, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task (Haddow et al., WMT 2018)
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