Investigating backtranslation for the improvement of English-Irish machine translation

In this paper, we discuss the difficulties of building reliable machine translation systems for the English-Irish (EN-GA) language pair. In the context of limited datasets, we report on assessing the use of backtranslation as a method for creating artificial EN-GA data to increase training data for...

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Main Authors: Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn, Andy Way
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2019-11-01
Series:Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/88