XMU Neural Machine Translation Systems for WAT2018 Myanmar-English Translation Task
Boli Wang, Jinming Hu, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2018
This paper describes the Neural Machine Translation systems of Xiamen University for the Myanmar-English translation tasks of WAT 2018.We apply Unicode normalization, training data filtering, different Myanmar tokenizers, and subword segmentation in data pre-processing.We try to train NMT models with different architectures.The experimental results show that the RNN-based shallow models can still outperform Transformer models in some settings.And we also found that replacing the official Myanmar tokenizer with syllable segmentation does help improve the result.