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MALM: Mixing Augmented Language Modeling for Zero-Shot Machine Translation

Computation and Language 2022-10-04 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Large pre-trained language models have brought remarkable progress in NLP. Pre-training and Fine-tuning have given state-of-art performance across tasks in text processing. Data Augmentation techniques have also helped build state-of-art models on low or zero resource tasks. Many works in the past have attempted at learning a single massively-multilingual machine translation model for zero-shot translation. Although those translation models are producing correct translations, the main challenge is those models are producing the wrong languages for zero-shot translation. This work and its results indicate that prompt conditioned large models do not suffer from off-target language errors i.e. errors arising due to translation to wrong languages. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of self-supervised pre-training and data augmentation for zero-shot multi-lingual machine translation.

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@article{arxiv.2210.00320,
  title  = {MALM: Mixing Augmented Language Modeling for Zero-Shot Machine Translation},
  author = {Kshitij Gupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00320},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Published in 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH 2022) which was organized with AACL 2022

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