Open Machine Translation for Low Resource South American Languages (AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task Contribution)

NAACL (AmericasNLP) 2021 · Shantipriya Parida, Subhadarshi Panda, Amulya Dash, Esau Villatoro-Tello, A. Seza Doğruöz, Rosa M. Ortega-Mendoza, Amadeo Hernández, Yashvardhan Sharma, Petr Motlicek ·

This paper describes the team (“Tamalli”)’s submission to AmericasNLP2021 shared task on Open Machine Translation for low resource South American languages. Our goal was to evaluate different Machine Translation (MT) techniques, statistical and neural-based, under several configuration settings. We obtained the second-best results for the language pairs “Spanish-Bribri”, “Spanish-Asháninka”, and “Spanish-Rarámuri” in the category “Development set not used for training”. Our performed experiments will serve as a point of reference for researchers working on MT with low-resource languages.

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