Informatik-Oberseminar

Montag, 07. Februar 2022, 14:00 Uhr

Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Scenarios

 

Abstract

Machine translation has been tackled for decades mainly by statistical learning on bilingual text data. In the most recent paradigm with neural networks, building a machine translation system requires more data than ever to make the best use of the modeling capacity and yield a reasonable performance. Unfortunately, however, there is not a sufficient amount of bilingual corpora for many language pairs and domains. To expand the coverage of neural machine translation, this talk investigates state-of-the-art methods to enhance the modeling, training, or data for such low-resource scenarios. These are categorized into two emerging paradigms in machine learning: First, in semi-supervised learning, we review the language model integration, monolingual pre-training, and back-translation. Second, in transfer learning, we study the end-to-end cascading of translation models and a series of sequential cross-lingual transfer techniques. These methods are empirically verified, compared, and combined in extensive experiments, providing the best practice for both English-centric and non-English language pairs when the data is scarce.

 

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