NRC Systems for the 2020 Inuktitut-English News Translation Task
Rebecca E. Knowles, Darlene A. Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell · 2020
We describe the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) submissions for the 2020 Inuktitut-English shared task on news translation at the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20).Our submissions consist of ensembled domain-specific finetuned transformer models, trained using the Nunavut Hansard and news data and, in the case of Inuktitut-English, backtranslated news and parliamentary data.In this work we explore challenges related to the relatively small amount of parallel data, morphological complexity, and domain shifts.