Abstract
The University of Edinburgh participated in the WMT22 shared task on code-mixed translation. This consists of two subtasks: i) generating code-mixed Hindi/English (Hinglish) text generation from parallel Hindi and English sentences and ii) machine translation from Hinglish to English. As both subtasks are considered low-resource, we focused our efforts on careful data generation and curation, especially the use of backtranslation from monolingual resources. For subtask 1 we explored the effects of constrained decoding on English and transliterated subwords in order to produce Hinglish. For subtask 2, we investigated different pretraining techniques, namely comparing simple initialisation from existing machine translation models and aligned augmentation. For both subtasks, we found that our baseline systems worked best. Our systems for both subtasks were one of the overall top-performing submissions.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.wmt-1.115
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Philipp Koehn, Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Markus Freitag, Yvette Graham, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Tom Kocmi, André Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Marco Turchi, Marcos Zampieri
- Venue:
- WMT
- SIG:
- SIGMT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1145–1157
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.115
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- Cite (ACL):
- Faheem Kirefu, Vivek Iyer, Pinzhen Chen, and Laurie Burchell. 2022. The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT). In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 1145–1157, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT) (Kirefu et al., WMT 2022)
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- https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.115.pdf
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@inproceedings{kirefu-etal-2022-university, title = "The {U}niversity of {E}dinburgh{'}s Submission to the {WMT}22 Code-Mixing Shared Task ({M}ix{MT})", author = "Kirefu, Faheem and Iyer, Vivek and Chen, Pinzhen and Burchell, Laurie", editor = {Koehn, Philipp and Barrault, Lo{\"\i}c and Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and Bougares, Fethi and Chatterjee, Rajen and Costa-juss{\`a}, Marta R. and Federmann, Christian and Fishel, Mark and Fraser, Alexander and Freitag, Markus and Graham, Yvette and Grundkiewicz, Roman and Guzman, Paco and Haddow, Barry and Huck, Matthias and Jimeno Yepes, Antonio and Kocmi, Tom and Martins, Andr{\'e} and Morishita, Makoto and Monz, Christof and Nagata, Masaaki and Nakazawa, Toshiaki and Negri, Matteo and N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie and Neves, Mariana and Popel, Martin and Turchi, Marco and Zampieri, Marcos}, booktitle = "Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)", month = dec, year = "2022", address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.115", pages = "1145--1157", abstract = "The University of Edinburgh participated in the WMT22 shared task on code-mixed translation. This consists of two subtasks: i) generating code-mixed Hindi/English (Hinglish) text generation from parallel Hindi and English sentences and ii) machine translation from Hinglish to English. As both subtasks are considered low-resource, we focused our efforts on careful data generation and curation, especially the use of backtranslation from monolingual resources. For subtask 1 we explored the effects of constrained decoding on English and transliterated subwords in order to produce Hinglish. For subtask 2, we investigated different pretraining techniques, namely comparing simple initialisation from existing machine translation models and aligned augmentation. For both subtasks, we found that our baseline systems worked best. Our systems for both subtasks were one of the overall top-performing submissions.", }
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%0 Conference Proceedings %T The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT) %A Kirefu, Faheem %A Iyer, Vivek %A Chen, Pinzhen %A Burchell, Laurie %Y Koehn, Philipp %Y Barrault, Loïc %Y Bojar, Ondřej %Y Bougares, Fethi %Y Chatterjee, Rajen %Y Costa-jussà, Marta R. %Y Federmann, Christian %Y Fishel, Mark %Y Fraser, Alexander %Y Freitag, Markus %Y Graham, Yvette %Y Grundkiewicz, Roman %Y Guzman, Paco %Y Haddow, Barry %Y Huck, Matthias %Y Jimeno Yepes, Antonio %Y Kocmi, Tom %Y Martins, André %Y Morishita, Makoto %Y Monz, Christof %Y Nagata, Masaaki %Y Nakazawa, Toshiaki %Y Negri, Matteo %Y Névéol, Aurélie %Y Neves, Mariana %Y Popel, Martin %Y Turchi, Marco %Y Zampieri, Marcos %S Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) %D 2022 %8 December %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid) %F kirefu-etal-2022-university %X The University of Edinburgh participated in the WMT22 shared task on code-mixed translation. This consists of two subtasks: i) generating code-mixed Hindi/English (Hinglish) text generation from parallel Hindi and English sentences and ii) machine translation from Hinglish to English. As both subtasks are considered low-resource, we focused our efforts on careful data generation and curation, especially the use of backtranslation from monolingual resources. For subtask 1 we explored the effects of constrained decoding on English and transliterated subwords in order to produce Hinglish. For subtask 2, we investigated different pretraining techniques, namely comparing simple initialisation from existing machine translation models and aligned augmentation. For both subtasks, we found that our baseline systems worked best. Our systems for both subtasks were one of the overall top-performing submissions. %U https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.115 %P 1145-1157
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[The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT)](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.115) (Kirefu et al., WMT 2022)
- The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT) (Kirefu et al., WMT 2022)
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- Faheem Kirefu, Vivek Iyer, Pinzhen Chen, and Laurie Burchell. 2022. The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT). In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 1145–1157, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.