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Impact of Corpora Quality on Neural Machine Translation

19 Oct 2018arXiv:1810.08392archive 2025-07-28

Matīss Rikters

Large parallel corpora that are automatically obtained from the web, documents or elsewhere often exhibit many corrupted parts that are bound to negatively affect the quality of the systems and models that learn from these corpora. This paper describes frequent problems found in data and such data affects neural machine translation systems, as well as how to identify and deal with them. The solutions are summarised in a set of scripts that remove problematic sentences from input corpora.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Machine Translation WMT 2017 English-Latvian Transformer trained on highly filtered data BLEU 22.89 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Machine Translation WMT 2017 Latvian-English Transformer trained on highly filtered data BLEU 24.37 #1 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Machine Translation WMT 2018 English-Finnish Transformer trained on highly filtered data BLEU 17.40 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Machine Translation WMT 2018 Finnish-English Transformer trained on highly filtered data BLEU 24.00 #2 of 2 Archive leaderboard report

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