English-Myanmar NMT and SMT with Pre-ordering: NICT's Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2018.
Rui Wang, Chenchen Ding, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2018
This paper presents the NICT's participation (team ID: NICT) in the 5th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT-2018) shared translation task, specifically Myanmar (Burmese) -English task in both translation directions.We built state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) as well as phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) systems for these tasks.Our NMT systems were trained with the Transformer architecture on the provided parallel data.Pre-ordering technology is adopted to both NMT and PBSMT.Our NMT systems rank the first in English-to-Myanmar and the second in Myanmar-to-English according to the official human evaluation.