Pranjal A. Chitale


2023

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Developing State-Of-The-Art Massively Multilingual Machine Translation Systems for Related Languages
Jay Gala | Pranjal A. Chitale | Raj Dabre
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstract

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NICT-AI4B’s Submission to the Indic MT Shared Task in WMT 2023
Raj Dabre | Jay Gala | Pranjal A. Chitale
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation

In this paper, we (Team NICT-AI4B) describe our MT systems that we submit to the Indic MT task in WMT 2023. Our primary system consists of 3 stages: Joint denoising and MT training using officially approved monolingual and parallel corpora, backtranslation and, MT training on original and backtranslated parallel corpora. We observe that backtranslation leads to substantial improvements in translation quality up to 4 BLEU points. We also develop 2 contrastive systems on unconstrained settings, where the first system involves fine-tuning of IndicTrans2 DA models on official parallel corpora and seed data used in AI4Bharat et al, (2023), and the second system involves a system combination of the primary and the aforementioned system. Overall, we manage to obtain high-quality translation systems for the 4 low-resource North-East Indian languages of focus.