CSP:Code-Switching Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to train neural machine translation models are data-hungry and low-resource . et al., 2018; Radford e.t., 2019; Yang ee.,2019) proposes a new pre-training method for NMT . |
| Approach: | They propose a new pre-training method which randomly replaces some words in the input sentence with their translation words in target language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on unsupervised and supervised NMT models by making full use of monolingual corpora. |
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