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Tigrinya Neural Machine Translation with Transfer Learning for Humanitarian Response

Computation and Language 2020-03-26 v1

Abstract

We report our experiments in building a domain-specific Tigrinya-to-English neural machine translation system. We use transfer learning from other Ge'ez script languages and report an improvement of 1.3 BLEU points over a classic neural baseline. We publish our development pipeline as an open-source library and also provide a demonstration application.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2003.11523,
  title  = {Tigrinya Neural Machine Translation with Transfer Learning for Humanitarian Response},
  author = {Alp Öktem and Mirko Plitt and Grace Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11523},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Pre-print accepted to Africa NLP workshop organized within Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020)

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