{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/adaptation-of-back-translation-to-automatic","title":"Adaptation of Back-translation to Automatic Post-Editing for Synthetic Data Generation","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2021-04-01","proceeding":"EACL 2021 2","authors":["WonKee Lee","Baikjin Jung","Jaehun Shin","Jong-Hyeok Lee"],"abstract":"Automatic Post-Editing (APE) aims to correct errors in the output of a given machine translation (MT) system. Although data-driven approaches have become prevalent also in the APE task as in many other NLP tasks, there has been a lack of qualified training data due to the high cost of manual construction. eSCAPE, a synthetic APE corpus, has been widely used to alleviate the data scarcity, but it might not address genuine APE corpora{'}s characteristic that the post-edited sentence should be a minimally edited revision of the given MT output. Therefore, we propose two new methods of synthesizing additional MT outputs by adapting back-translation to the APE task, obtaining robust enlargements of the existing synthetic APE training dataset. Experimental results on the WMT English-German APE benchmarks demonstrate that our enlarged datasets are effective in improving APE performance.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.322","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.322.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"adaptation-of-back-translation-to-automatic","repo_url":"https://github.com/wonkeelee/ape-backtranslation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"automatic-post-editing","task_name":"Automatic Post-Editing"},{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"synthetic-data-generation","task_name":"Synthetic Data Generation"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}