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title = "Neural Machine Translation for {E}nglish{--}{K}azakh with Morphological Segmentation and Synthetic Data",
author = "Toral, Antonio and
Edman, Lukas and
Yeshmagambetova, Galiya and
Spenader, Jennifer",
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
Martins, Andr{\'e} and
Monz, Christof and
Negri, Matteo and
N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie and
Neves, Mariana and
Post, Matt and
Turchi, Marco and
Verspoor, Karin",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5343",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5343",
pages = "386--392",
abstract = "This paper presents the systems submitted by the University of Groningen to the English{--} Kazakh language pair (both translation directions) for the WMT 2019 news translation task. We explore the potential benefits of (i) morphological segmentation (both unsupervised and rule-based), given the agglutinative nature of Kazakh, (ii) data from two additional languages (Turkish and Russian), given the scarcity of English{--}Kazakh data and (iii) synthetic data, both for the source and for the target language. Our best submissions ranked second for Kazakh→English and third for English→Kazakh in terms of the BLEU automatic evaluation metric.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Neural Machine Translation for English–Kazakh with Morphological Segmentation and Synthetic Data
%A Toral, Antonio
%A Edman, Lukas
%A Yeshmagambetova, Galiya
%A Spenader, Jennifer
%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 Martins, André
%Y Monz, Christof
%Y Negri, Matteo
%Y Névéol, Aurélie
%Y Neves, Mariana
%Y Post, Matt
%Y Turchi, Marco
%Y Verspoor, Karin
%S Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)
%D 2019
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Florence, Italy
%F toral-etal-2019-neural
%X This paper presents the systems submitted by the University of Groningen to the English– Kazakh language pair (both translation directions) for the WMT 2019 news translation task. We explore the potential benefits of (i) morphological segmentation (both unsupervised and rule-based), given the agglutinative nature of Kazakh, (ii) data from two additional languages (Turkish and Russian), given the scarcity of English–Kazakh data and (iii) synthetic data, both for the source and for the target language. Our best submissions ranked second for Kazakh→English and third for English→Kazakh in terms of the BLEU automatic evaluation metric.
%R 10.18653/v1/W19-5343
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-5343
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5343
%P 386-392
Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Machine Translation for English–Kazakh with Morphological Segmentation and Synthetic Data](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5343) (Toral et al., WMT 2019)
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