Panlingua-KMI MT System for Similar Language Translation Task at WMT 2019

Atul Kr. Ojha, Ritesh Kumar, Akanksha Bansal, Priya Rani


Abstract
The present paper enumerates the development of Panlingua-KMI Machine Translation (MT) systems for Hindi ↔ Nepali language pair, designed as part of the Similar Language Translation Task at the WMT 2019 Shared Task. The Panlingua-KMI team conducted a series of experiments to explore both the phrase-based statistical (PBSMT) and neural methods (NMT). Among the 11 MT systems prepared under this task, 6 PBSMT systems were prepared for Nepali-Hindi, 1 PBSMT for Hindi-Nepali and 2 NMT systems were developed for Nepali↔Hindi. The results show that PBSMT could be an effective method for developing MT systems for closely-related languages. Our Hindi-Nepali PBSMT system was ranked 2nd among the 13 systems submitted for the pair and our Nepali-Hindi PBSMTsystem was ranked 4th among the 12 systems submitted for the task.
Anthology ID:
W19-5429
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 3: Shared Task Papers, Day 2)
Month:
August
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, André Martins, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
213–218
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W19-5429
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W19-5429
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Cite (ACL):
Atul Kr. Ojha, Ritesh Kumar, Akanksha Bansal, and Priya Rani. 2019. Panlingua-KMI MT System for Similar Language Translation Task at WMT 2019. In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 3: Shared Task Papers, Day 2), pages 213–218, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Panlingua-KMI MT System for Similar Language Translation Task at WMT 2019 (Ojha et al., WMT 2019)
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