NICT’s participation to WAT 2019: Multilingualism and Multi-step Fine-Tuning for Low Resource NMT (D19-52)
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| Challenge: | In this paper, we describe our submissions for the following tasks: English–Tamil translation and Russian–Japanese translation. |
| Approach: | They propose to use multilingual domain adaptation and back-translation to improve translations in Russian–Japanese and English–Tamil. |
| Outcome: | The proposed techniques perform better in Russian–Japanese and English–Tamil translation tasks. |
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