Summary of Interplay Of Machine Translation, Diacritics, and Diacritization, by Wei-rui Chen et al.
Interplay of Machine Translation, Diacritics, and Diacritization
by Wei-Rui Chen, Ife Adebara, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Machine learning researchers investigated two questions: how do machine translation (MT) and diacritization influence each other’s performance in a multi-task learning setting, and whether keeping or removing diacritics affects MT performance. They examined these questions across 55 different languages, including African and European languages, in both high-resource (HR) and low-resource (LR) settings. The results showed that diacritization significantly improves MT performance in LR scenarios, but harms it in HR scenarios. Additionally, the study found that MT affects diacritization differently depending on language resources. Furthermore, the researchers proposed two metrics to measure the complexity of a diacritical system, which correlated positively with the performance of their diacritization models. Overall, this work provides insights for developing MT and diacritization systems under different data size conditions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Machine translation and adding special marks (diacritics) to text can help or hurt each other’s performance when learning together. The researchers looked at how these two tasks do in 55 languages, from Africa and Europe, with either lots of training data or very little. They found that adding diacritics helps machine translation when there’s not much data, but hurts it when there is plenty. The same is true for the other way around: machine translation affects how well we can add diacritics, depending on the amount of training data. This study shows us what happens when we try to do both tasks at once and can help create better tools for translating text. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Multi task » Translation
