Cued@wmt19:ewc&lms
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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
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cs.CL, cs.CL
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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)
EPSRC (1632937)
EPSRC (1750003)