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Tilde's Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018

1 Oct 2018WS 2018 10archive 2025-07-28

M{\=a}rcis Pinnis, Mat{\=\i}ss Rikters, Rihards Kri{\v{s}}lauks

The paper describes the development process of the Tilde{'}s NMT systems that were submitted for the WMT 2018 shared task on news translation. We describe the data filtering and pre-processing workflows, the NMT system training architectures, and automatic evaluation results. For the WMT 2018 shared task, we submitted seven systems (both constrained and unconstrained) for English-Estonian and Estonian-English translation directions. The submitted systems were trained using Transformer models.

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Machine TranslationNMTTranslation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Machine Translation WMT 2018 English-Estonian Multi-pass backtranslated adapted transformer BLEU 24.10 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Machine Translation WMT 2018 Estonian-English Multi-pass backtranslated adapted transformer BLEU 29.00 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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