Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task

Shun Kiyono; Takumi Ito; Ryuto Konno; Makoto Morishita; Jun Suzuki

Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task

Shun Kiyono, Takumi Ito, Ryuto Konno, Makoto Morishita, Jun Suzuki

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the submission of Tohoku-AIP-NTT to the WMT'20 news translation task. We participated in this task in two language pairs and four language directions: English↔German and English↔Japanese. Our system consists of techniques such as back-translation and fine-tuning, which are already widely adopted in translation tasks. We attempted to develop new methods for both synthetic data filtering and reranking. However, the methods turned out to be ineffective, and they provided us with no significant improvement over the baseline. We analyze these negative results to provide insights for future studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings
Editors	Loic Barrault, Ondrej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-Jussa, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Yvette Graham, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Andre Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	145-155
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781948087810
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 2020 Nov 19 → 2020 Nov 20

Publication series

Name	5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/11/19 → 20/11/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Language and Linguistics

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Kiyono, S., Ito, T., Konno, R., Morishita, M., & Suzuki, J. (2020). Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task. In L. Barrault, O. Bojar, F. Bougares, R. Chatterjee, M. R. Costa-Jussa, C. Federmann, M. Fishel, A. Fraser, Y. Graham, P. Guzman, B. Haddow, M. Huck, A. J. Yepes, P. Koehn, A. Martins, M. Morishita, C. Monz, M. Nagata, T. Nakazawa, & M. Negri (Eds.), 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings (pp. 145-155). (5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task. / Kiyono, Shun; Ito, Takumi; Konno, Ryuto et al.

5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings. ed. / Loic Barrault; Ondrej Bojar; Fethi Bougares; Rajen Chatterjee; Marta R. Costa-Jussa; Christian Federmann; Mark Fishel; Alexander Fraser; Yvette Graham; Paco Guzman; Barry Haddow; Matthias Huck; Antonio Jimeno Yepes; Philipp Koehn; Andre Martins; Makoto Morishita; Christof Monz; Masaaki Nagata; Toshiaki Nakazawa; Matteo Negri. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. p. 145-155 (5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kiyono, S, Ito, T, Konno, R, Morishita, M & Suzuki, J 2020, Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task. in L Barrault, O Bojar, F Bougares, R Chatterjee, MR Costa-Jussa, C Federmann, M Fishel, A Fraser, Y Graham, P Guzman, B Haddow, M Huck, AJ Yepes, P Koehn, A Martins, M Morishita, C Monz, M Nagata, T Nakazawa & M Negri (eds), 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings. 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 145-155, 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020, Virtual, Online, 20/11/19.

Kiyono S, Ito T, Konno R, Morishita M, Suzuki J. Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task. In Barrault L, Bojar O, Bougares F, Chatterjee R, Costa-Jussa MR, Federmann C, Fishel M, Fraser A, Graham Y, Guzman P, Haddow B, Huck M, Yepes AJ, Koehn P, Martins A, Morishita M, Monz C, Nagata M, Nakazawa T, Negri M, editors, 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2020. p. 145-155. (5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings).

Kiyono, Shun ; Ito, Takumi ; Konno, Ryuto et al. / Tohoku-AIP-NTT at WMT 2020 News Translation Task. 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings. editor / Loic Barrault ; Ondrej Bojar ; Fethi Bougares ; Rajen Chatterjee ; Marta R. Costa-Jussa ; Christian Federmann ; Mark Fishel ; Alexander Fraser ; Yvette Graham ; Paco Guzman ; Barry Haddow ; Matthias Huck ; Antonio Jimeno Yepes ; Philipp Koehn ; Andre Martins ; Makoto Morishita ; Christof Monz ; Masaaki Nagata ; Toshiaki Nakazawa ; Matteo Negri. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. pp. 145-155 (5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings).

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