{"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/data-augmentation-for-low-resource-neural","title":"Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation","arxiv_id":"1705.00440","date":"2017-05-01","proceeding":"ACL 2017 7","authors":["Marzieh Fadaee","Arianna Bisazza","Christof Monz"],"abstract":"The quality of a Neural Machine Translation system depends substantially on\nthe availability of sizable parallel corpora. For low-resource language pairs\nthis is not the case, resulting in poor translation quality. Inspired by work\nin computer vision, we propose a novel data augmentation approach that targets\nlow-frequency words by generating new sentence pairs containing rare words in\nnew, synthetically created contexts. Experimental results on simulated\nlow-resource settings show that our method improves translation quality by up\nto 2.9 BLEU points over the baseline and up to 3.2 BLEU over back-translation.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00440v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.00440v1.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":"data-augmentation-for-low-resource-neural","repo_url":"https://github.com/marziehf/DataAugmentationNMT","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"torch","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"data-augmentation","task_name":"Data Augmentation"},{"task_slug":"low-resource-neural-machine-translation-2","task_name":"Low Resource Neural Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"low-resource-neural-machine-translation","task_name":"Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1705.00440","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}