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Afromt: استراتيجيات الاحتجاج والمعايير القابلة للتكرار للترجمة 8 اللغات الأفريقية
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المعايير القابلة للتكرار حاسمة في قيادة التقدم المحرز في أبحاث الترجمة الآلية. ومع ذلك، تقتصر معايير الترجمة الآلية الموجودة في الغالب على اللغات عالية الموارد أو ممثلة تمثيلا جيدا. على الرغم من الاهتمام المتزايد في الترجمة ذات الجهاز المنخفض، لا توجد معايير موحدة استنساخ للعديد من اللغات الأفريقية، يتم استخدام العديد منها من قبل ملايين المتحدثين ولكن لديهم بيانات نصية أقل رقمية. لمعالجة هذه التحديات، نقترح AFROMT، معيارا قياسيا موحدا ونينا ونظيفا ولاكاثر لثمانية لغات أفريقية منطوقة على نطاق واسع. نقوم أيضا بتطوير مجموعة من أدوات التحليل لتشخيص النظام مع الأخذ في الاعتبار الخصائص الفريدة لهذه اللغات. علاوة على ذلك، نستكشف القضية التي تعتبرها مؤلمة تركز على الموارد المنخفضة المنخفضة وتطوير استراتيجيات جديدة قائمة على زيادة تكبير البيانات، واستفادة من معلومات محاذاة مستوى الكلمات والبيانات الزائفة غير المباشرة لإحاطاء نماذج التسلسل متعددة اللغات. نوضح تحسينات كبيرة عند الاحتجاج في 11 لغة، مع مكاسب تصل إلى 2 نقطة بلو على خطوط خطوط خطوط خطوط طويلة. نعرض أيضا مكاسب تصل إلى 12 نقطة بلو على خطوط خطوط نقل النقل عبر اللغات في سيناريوهات مقيدة البيانات. سيتم إصدار جميع النماذج من التعليمات البرمجية والأعمدة كخطوات أخرى نحو معايير قابلة لإزالة الأكبرات للغات الأفريقية.
Reproducible benchmarks are crucial in driving progress of machine translation research. However, existing machine translation benchmarks have been mostly limited to high-resource or well-represented languages. Despite an increasing interest in low-resource machine translation, there are no standardized reproducible benchmarks for many African languages, many of which are used by millions of speakers but have less digitized textual data. To tackle these challenges, we propose AfroMT, a standardized, clean, and reproducible machine translation benchmark for eight widely spoken African languages. We also develop a suite of analysis tools for system diagnosis taking into account the unique properties of these languages. Furthermore, we explore the newly considered case of low-resource focused pretraining and develop two novel data augmentation-based strategies, leveraging word-level alignment information and pseudo-monolingual data for pretraining multilingual sequence-to-sequence models. We demonstrate significant improvements when pretraining on 11 languages, with gains of up to 2 BLEU points over strong baselines. We also show gains of up to 12 BLEU points over cross-lingual transfer baselines in data-constrained scenarios. All code and pretrained models will be released as further steps towards larger reproducible benchmarks for African languages.
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