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Developing neural machine translation models for Hungarian-English

Computation and Language 2021-11-09 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

I train models for the task of neural machine translation for English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English, using the Hunglish2 corpus. The main contribution of this work is evaluating different data augmentation methods during the training of NMT models. I propose 5 different augmentation methods that are structure-aware, meaning that instead of randomly selecting words for blanking or replacement, the dependency tree of sentences is used as a basis for augmentation. I start my thesis with a detailed literature review on neural networks, sequential modeling, neural machine translation, dependency parsing and data augmentation. After a detailed exploratory data analysis and preprocessing of the Hunglish2 corpus, I perform experiments with the proposed data augmentation techniques. The best model for Hungarian-English achieves a BLEU score of 33.9, while the best model for English-Hungarian achieves a BLEU score of 28.6.

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@article{arxiv.2111.04099,
  title  = {Developing neural machine translation models for Hungarian-English},
  author = {Attila Nagy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04099},
  year   = {2021}
}
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