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Improving English-to-Indian language neural machine translation systems

Kandimalla, Akshara, Lohar, Pintu, Maji, Souvik Kumar and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2022) Improving English-to-Indian language neural machine translation systems. Information, 13 (5). ISSN 2078-2489

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Abstract

Most Indian languages lack sufficient parallel data for Machine Translation (MT) training. In this study, we build English-to-Indian language Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems using the state-of-the-art transformer architecture. In addition, we investigate the utility of back-translation and its effect on system performance. Our experimental evaluation reveals that the back-translation method helps to improve the BLEU scores for both English-to-Hindi and English-to-Bengali NMT systems. We also observe that back-translation is more useful in improving the quality of weaker baseline MT systems. In addition, we perform a manual evaluation of the translation outputs and observe that the BLEU metric cannot always analyse the MT quality as well as humans. Our analysis shows that MT outputs for the English–Bengali pair are actually better than that evaluated by BLEU metric.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:machine translation; back-translation; parallel data
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:MDPI
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info13050245
Copyright Information:© 2022 The Authors.
ID Code:27451
Deposited On:29 Jul 2022 09:22 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 15 Mar 2023 15:09

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