Title
CUNI systems for WMT21 - Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task.
Abstract
This paper describes Charles University submission for Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages shared task at WMT21. We competed in translation from Catalan into Romanian, Italian and Occitan. Our systems are based on shared multilingual model. We show that using joint model for multiple similar language pairs improves upon translation quality in each pair. We also demonstrate that chararacter-level bilingual models are competitive for very similar language pairs (Catalan-Occitan) but less so for more distant pairs. We also describe our experiments with multi-task learning, where aside from a textual translation, the models are also trained to perform grapheme-to-phoneme conversion.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
WMT@EMNLP
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Josef Jon101.01
Michal Novák243.79
João Paulo Aires301.01
Dusan Varis445.14
Ondřej Bojar51701122.71