Handle with Care: A Case Study in Comparable Corpora Exploitation for Neural Machine Translation
Thierry Etchegoyhen, Harritxu Gete
Abstract
We present the results of a case study in the exploitation of comparable corpora for Neural Machine Translation. A large comparable corpus for Basque-Spanish was prepared, on the basis of independently-produced news by the Basque public broadcaster EiTB, and we discuss the impact of various techniques to exploit the original data in order to determine optimal variants of the corpus. In particular, we show that filtering in terms of alignment thresholds and length-difference outliers has a significant impact on translation quality. The impact of tags identifying comparable data in the training datasets is also evaluated, with results indicating that this technique might be useful to help the models discriminate noisy information, in the form of informational imbalance between aligned sentences. The final corpus was prepared according to the experimental results and is made available to the scientific community for research purposes.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.469
- Volume:
- Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3799–3807
- URL:
- https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.469
- DOI:
- PDF:
- https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.469.pdf
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