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Cued@wmt19:ewc&lms

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Authors

Gispert, Adria de 
Byrne, Bill 

Abstract

Two techniques provide the fabric of the Cambridge University Engineering Department's (CUED) entry to the WMT19 evaluation campaign: elastic weight consolidation (EWC) and different forms of language modelling (LMs). We report substantial gains by fine-tuning very strong baselines on former WMT test sets using a combination of checkpoint averaging and EWC. A sentence-level Transformer LM and a document-level LM based on a modified Transformer architecture yield further gains. As in previous years, we also extract n-gram probabilities from SMT lattices which can be seen as a source-conditioned n-gram LM.

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cs.CL, cs.CL

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers

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Fourth conference on machine translation (WMT19)

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EPSRC (1632937)
EPSRC (1632937)
EPSRC (1750003)