Machine Translation of Low-Resource Indo-European Languages

08/08/2021

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by   Wei-Rui Chen, et al.

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Transfer learning has been an important technique for low-resource neural machine translation. In this work, we build two systems to study how relatedness can benefit the translation performance. The primary system adopts machine translation model pre-trained on related language pair and the contrastive system adopts that pre-trained on unrelated language pair. We show that relatedness is not required for transfer learning to work but does benefit the performance.