Recommended Citation
Ojha, Atul Kr., Rani, Priya, Bansal, Akanksha, Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja, Kumar, Ritesh, & McCrae, John P. (2020). NUIG-Panlingua-KMI Hindi-Marathi MT Systems for Similar Language Translation Task @ WMT 2020. Paper presented at the 5th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20) Online, 19-20 November
Abstract
NUIG-Panlingua-KMI submission to WMT
2020 seeks to push the state-of-the-art in the
Similar language translation task for the Hindi
↔ Marathi language pair. As part of these efforts, we conducted a series of experiments
to address the challenges for translation between similar languages. Among the 4 MT
systems prepared for this task, 1 PBSMT systems were prepared for Hindi ↔ Marathi each
and 1 NMT systems were developed for Hindi
↔ Marathi using Byte Pair Encoding (BPE)
of subwords. The results show that different
architectures in NMT could be an effective
method for developing MT systems for closely
related languages. Our Hindi-Marathi NMT
system was ranked 8th among the 14 teams that
participated and our Marathi-Hindi NMT system was ranked 8th among the 11 teams participated for the task.