Neural Machine Translation of Basque
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10045/76024
Title: | Neural Machine Translation of Basque |
---|---|
Authors: | Etchegoyhen, Thierry | Martínez Garcia, Eva | Azpeitia, Andoni | Labaka Intxauspe, Gorka | Alegría Loinaz, Iñaki | Cortés Etxabe, Itziar | Jauregi Carrera, Amaia | Ellakuria, Igor | Martin, Maite | Calonge, Eusebi |
Keywords: | Machine Translation |
Knowledge Area: | Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | European Association for Machine Translation |
Citation: | Etchegoyhen, Thierry, et al. “Neural Machine Translation of Basque”. In: Pérez-Ortiz, Juan Antonio, et al. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation: 28-30 May 2018, Universitat d'Alacant, Alacant, Spain, pp. 139-148 |
Abstract: | We describe the first experimental results in neural machine translation for Basque. As a synthetic language featuring agglutinative morphology, an extended case system, complex verbal morphology and relatively free word order, Basque presents a large number of challenging characteristics for machine translation in general, and for data-driven approaches such as attention-based encoder-decoder models in particular. We present our results on a large range of experiments in Basque-Spanish translation, comparing several neural machine translation system variants with both rule-based and statistical machine translation systems. We demonstrate that significant gains can be obtained with a neural network approach for this challenging language pair, and describe optimal configurations in terms of word segmentation and decoding parameters, measured against test sets that feature multiple references to account for word order variability. |
Sponsor: | This work was supported by the Department of Economic Development and Competitiveness of the Basque Government via the MODELA project. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/76024 |
ISBN: | 978-84-09-01901-4 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
Rights: | © 2018 The authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CC-BY-ND. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://eamt2018.dlsi.ua.es/proceedings-eamt2018.pdf |
Appears in Collections: | EAMT2018 - Proceedings |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
EAMT2018-Proceedings_16.pdf | 1,49 MB | Adobe PDF | Open Preview | |
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License