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نحن نحقق في التعلم التحويل بناء على نماذج الترجمة الآلية المدربة مسبقا للترجمة بين (الموارد المنخفضة) اللغات المشابهة.هذا العمل هو جزء من مساهمتنا في المهمة المشتركة لغات WMT 2021 بمثابة مهمة مشتركة حيث أرسلنا نماذج لأزواج اللغة المختلفة، بما في ذلك الفرنسية-بامبارا والإسبانية الكاتالونية والإسبانية والبرتغالية في كلا الاتجاهين.نماذجنا للكاتالان الإسبانية (82.79 بلو) والبرتغالية-الإسبانية (87.11 بلو) المرتبة الأولى في تقييم المهام المشتركة الرسمية، ونحن الفريق الوحيد لتقديم نماذج لأزواج بامبارا الفرنسية.
We investigate transfer learning based on pre-trained neural machine translation models to translate between (low-resource) similar languages. This work is part of our contribution to the WMT 2021 Similar Languages Translation Shared Task where we submitted models for different language pairs, including French-Bambara, Spanish-Catalan, and Spanish-Portuguese in both directions. Our models for Catalan-Spanish (82.79 BLEU)and Portuguese-Spanish (87.11 BLEU) rank top 1 in the official shared task evaluation, and we are the only team to submit models for the French-Bambara pairs.
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