Pétur Orri Ragnarson
2021
Miðeind’s WMT 2021 Submission
Haukur Barri Símonarson
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Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson
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Pétur Orri Ragnarson
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Haukur Jónsson
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Vilhjalmur Thorsteinsson
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation
We present Miðeind’s submission for the English→Icelandic and Icelandic→English subsets of the 2021 WMT news translation task. Transformer-base models are trained for translation on parallel data to generate backtranslations teratively. A pretrained mBART-25 model is then adapted for translation using parallel data as well as the last backtranslation iteration. This adapted pretrained model is then used to re-generate backtranslations, and the training of the adapted model is continued.