Machine Translation of Restaurant Reviews: New Corpus for Domain Adaptation and Robustness (D19-56)
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Alexandre Berard, Ioan Calapodescu, Marc Dymetman, Claude Roux, Jean-Luc Meunier, Vassilina Nikoulina
| Challenge: | BLEU: MT is a very robust and efficient way to translate user-generated content. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to encourage research on MT robustness and domain adaptation . they ask professionals to translate 11.5k french 4SQ reviews to English . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task improves on the existing MT systems in a real-world scenario . the proposed methods improve translation accuracy and sentiment analysis . |
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