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    <abstract>We investigate ways of using monolingual data in both the source and target languages for improving low-resource machine translation. As a case study, we experiment with translation from Finnish to Northern Sámi.Our experiments show that while conventional backtranslation remains a strong contender, using synthetic target-side data when training backtranslation models can be helpful as well.We also show that monolingual data can be used to train a language model which can act as a regularizer without any augmentation of parallel data.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Language Model Priors and Data Augmentation Strategies for Low-resource Machine Translation: A Case Study Using Finnish to Northern Sámi
%A Sälevä, Jonne
%A Lignos, Constantine
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F saleva-lignos-2024-language
%X We investigate ways of using monolingual data in both the source and target languages for improving low-resource machine translation. As a case study, we experiment with translation from Finnish to Northern Sámi.Our experiments show that while conventional backtranslation remains a strong contender, using synthetic target-side data when training backtranslation models can be helpful as well.We also show that monolingual data can be used to train a language model which can act as a regularizer without any augmentation of parallel data.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.768
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.768/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.768
%P 12949-12956

Markdown (Informal)

[Language Model Priors and Data Augmentation Strategies for Low-resource Machine Translation: A Case Study Using Finnish to Northern Sámi](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.768/) (Sälevä & Lignos, Findings 2024)

• Language Model Priors and Data Augmentation Strategies for Low-resource Machine Translation: A Case Study Using Finnish to Northern Sámi (Sälevä & Lignos, Findings 2024)

ACL

• Jonne Sälevä and Constantine Lignos. 2024. Language Model Priors and Data Augmentation Strategies for Low-resource Machine Translation: A Case Study Using Finnish to Northern Sámi. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, pages 12949–12956, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.