The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task
Barry Haddow, Nikolay Bogoychev, Denis Emelin, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Kenneth Heafield, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Rico Sennrich
Abstract
The University of Edinburgh made submissions to all 14 language pairs in the news translation task, with strong performances in most pairs. We introduce new RNN-variant, mixed RNN/Transformer ensembles, data selection and weighting, and extensions to back-translation.- Anthology ID:
- W18-6412
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Belgium, Brussels
- Venues:
- EMNLP | WMT | WS
- SIG:
- SIGMT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 399–409
- Language:
- URL:
- https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-6412
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-6412
- PDF:
- http://aclanthology.lst.uni-saarland.de/W18-6412.pdf