Contact Relatedness can help improve multilingual NMT: Microsoft STCI-MT @ WMT20
Vikrant Goyal, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Rahul Kejriwal, Siddharth Jain, Amit G Bhagwat · 2020
We describe our submission for the English→Tamil and Tamil→English news translation shared task.In this submission, we focus on exploring if a low-resource language (Tamil) can benefit from a high-resource language (Hindi) with which it shares contact relatedness.We show utilizing contact relatedness via multilingual NMT can significantly improve translation quality for English-Tamil translation.