HW-TSC’s Participation in the WAT 2020 Indic Languages Multilingual Task

Zhengzhe Yu, Zhanglin Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo, Zongyao Li, Minghan Wang, Liangyou Li, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, Ying Qin


Abstract
This paper describes our work in the WAT 2020 Indic Multilingual Translation Task. We participated in all 7 language pairs (En<->Bn/Hi/Gu/Ml/Mr/Ta/Te) in both directions under the constrained condition—using only the officially provided data. Using transformer as a baseline, our Multi->En and En->Multi translation systems achieve the best performances. Detailed data filtering and data domain selection are the keys to performance enhancement in our experiment, with an average improvement of 2.6 BLEU scores for each language pair in the En->Multi system and an average improvement of 4.6 BLEU scores regarding the Multi->En. In addition, we employed language independent adapter to further improve the system performances. Our submission obtains competitive results in the final evaluation.
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2020.wat-1.8
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation
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December
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2020
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Suzhou, China
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Toshiaki Nakazawa, Hideki Nakayama, Chenchen Ding, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Win Pa Pa, Ondřej Bojar, Shantipriya Parida, Isao Goto, Hidaya Mino, Hiroshi Manabe, Katsuhito Sudoh, Sadao Kurohashi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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WAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Zhengzhe Yu, Zhanglin Wu, Xiaoyu Chen, Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Jiaxin Guo, Zongyao Li, Minghan Wang, Liangyou Li, Lizhi Lei, Hao Yang, and Ying Qin. 2020. HW-TSC’s Participation in the WAT 2020 Indic Languages Multilingual Task. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation, pages 92–97, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HW-TSC’s Participation in the WAT 2020 Indic Languages Multilingual Task (Yu et al., WAT 2020)
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