Lankford, Séamus ORCID: 0000-0003-1693-9533, Afli, Haithem ORCID: 0000-0002-7449-4707 and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2021) Machine translation in the Covid domain: an English-Irish case study for LoResMT 2021. In: 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 16 August 2021, Orlando,Fl, USA.
Abstract
Translation models for the specific domain of translating Covid data from English to Irish were developed for the LoResMT 2021 shared task. Domain adaptation techniques, using a Covid-adapted generic 55k corpus from the Directorate General of Translation, were applied. Fine-tuning, mixed fine-tuning and combined dataset approaches were compared with models trained on an extended in-domain dataset. As part of this study, an English-Irish dataset of Covid related data, from the Health and Education domains, was developed. The highest-performing model used a Transformer architecture trained with an extended in-domain Covid dataset. In the context of this study, we have demonstrated that extending an 8k in-domain baseline dataset by just 5k lines improved the BLEU score by 27 points.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Workshop |
Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Official URL: | https://aclanthology.org/2021.mtsummit-loresmt.15 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2016), European Regional Development Fund, Munster Technological University |
ID Code: | 28342 |
Deposited On: | 18 May 2023 14:21 by Seamus Lankford . Last Modified 18 May 2023 14:21 |
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