| --- |
| language: |
| - bm |
| - fr |
| --- |
| @inproceedings{adebara-abdul-mageed-2021-improving, |
| title = "Improving Similar Language Translation With Transfer Learning", |
| author = "Adebara, Ife and |
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", |
| booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation", |
| month = nov, |
| year = "2021", |
| address = "Online", |
| publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", |
| url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.wmt-1.27", |
| pages = "273--278", |
| abstract = "We investigate transfer learning based on pre-trained neural machine translation models to translate between (low-resource) similar languages. This work is part of our contribution to the WMT 2021 Similar Languages Translation Shared Task where we submitted models for different language pairs, including French-Bambara, Spanish-Catalan, and Spanish-Portuguese in both directions. Our models for Catalan-Spanish (82.79 BLEU)and Portuguese-Spanish (87.11 BLEU) rank top 1 in the official shared task evaluation, and we are the only team to submit models for the French-Bambara pairs.", |
| } |
