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WAT 2021

Research of Sourav Kumar,  5th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma, and Salil Aggarwal, 4th year dual degree student working under the supervision of Prof. Radhika Mamidi was accepted at Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2021). The conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 5 – 6 August. Research work as explained by the authors: 

This paper describes the work and the systems submitted by the IIIT Hyderabad team (Id: IIIT- H) in the WAT 2021 MultiIndicMT shared task. The task covers 10 major languages of the Indian subcontinent. For the scope of this task, we have built multilingual systems for 20 translation directions namely English-Indic (one-to-many) and Indic-English (many-to-one). Individually, Indian languages are resource poor which hampers translation quality but by leveraging multilingualism and abundant monolingual corpora, the translation quality can be substantially boosted. But the multilingual systems are highly complex in terms of time as well as computational resources. Therefore, we are training our systems by efficiently selecting data that will actually contribute to most of the learning process. Furthermore, we are also exploiting the language relatedness found in between Indian languages. All the comparisons were made using BLEU score and we found that our final multilingual system significantly outperforms the baselines by an average of 11.3 and 19.6 BLEU points for English- Indic (en-xx) and Indic-English (xx-en) directions, respectively.

 

More details at: http://lotus.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/WAT/WAT2021/