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title = "Robust Machine Translation with Domain Sensitive Pseudo-Sources: {B}aidu-{OSU} {WMT}19 {MT} Robustness Shared Task System Report",
author = "Zheng, Renjie and
Liu, Hairong and
Ma, Mingbo and
Zheng, Baigong and
Huang, Liang",
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/W19-5367/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5367",
pages = "559--564",
abstract = "This paper describes the machine translation system developed jointly by Baidu Research and Oregon State University for WMT 2019 Machine Translation Robustness Shared Task. Translation of social media is a very challenging problem, since its style is very different from normal parallel corpora (e.g. News) and also include various types of noises. To make it worse, the amount of social media parallel corpora is extremely limited. In this paper, we use a domain sensitive training method which leverages a large amount of parallel data from popular domains together with a little amount of parallel data from social media. Furthermore, we generate a parallel dataset with pseudo noisy source sentences which are back-translated from monolingual data using a model trained by a similar domain sensitive way. In this way, we achieve more than 10 BLEU improvement in both En-Fr and Fr-En translation compared with the baseline methods."
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%T Robust Machine Translation with Domain Sensitive Pseudo-Sources: Baidu-OSU WMT19 MT Robustness Shared Task System Report
%A Zheng, Renjie
%A Liu, Hairong
%A Ma, Mingbo
%A Zheng, Baigong
%A Huang, Liang
%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 zheng-etal-2019-robust
%X This paper describes the machine translation system developed jointly by Baidu Research and Oregon State University for WMT 2019 Machine Translation Robustness Shared Task. Translation of social media is a very challenging problem, since its style is very different from normal parallel corpora (e.g. News) and also include various types of noises. To make it worse, the amount of social media parallel corpora is extremely limited. In this paper, we use a domain sensitive training method which leverages a large amount of parallel data from popular domains together with a little amount of parallel data from social media. Furthermore, we generate a parallel dataset with pseudo noisy source sentences which are back-translated from monolingual data using a model trained by a similar domain sensitive way. In this way, we achieve more than 10 BLEU improvement in both En-Fr and Fr-En translation compared with the baseline methods.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-5367/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5367
%P 559-564
Markdown (Informal)
[Robust Machine Translation with Domain Sensitive Pseudo-Sources: Baidu-OSU WMT19 MT Robustness Shared Task System Report](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5367/) (Zheng et al., WMT 2019)
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