no code implementations • WMT (EMNLP) 2020 • Rebecca Knowles, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell
We describe the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) submissions for the 2020 Inuktitut-English shared task on news translation at the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20).
no code implementations • WMT (EMNLP) 2020 • Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart, Patrick Littell
We describe the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) neural machine translation systems for the German-Upper Sorbian supervised track of the 2020 shared task on Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT.
no code implementations • NAACL (AmericasNLP) 2021 • Rebecca Knowles, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell
We describe the NRC-CNRC systems submitted to the AmericasNLP shared task on machine translation.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain D{\'e}silets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennat{\'e}kha, Akwirat{\'e}kha{'} Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyeht{\'e}nhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Beno{\^\i}t Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter
This paper surveys the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in Canada in preserving their languages and extending their use.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Eric Joanis, Rebecca Knowles, Rol Kuhn, , Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Darlene Stewart, Jeffrey Micher
This paper describes a newly released sentence-aligned Inuktitut{--}English corpus based on the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, covering sessions from April 1999 to June 2017.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart
We describe the neural machine translation (NMT) system developed at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) for the Kazakh-English news translation task of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19).
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Chi-kiu Lo, Michel Simard, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Cyril Goutte, Patrick Littell
We present our semantic textual similarity approach in filtering a noisy web crawled parallel corpus using YiSi{---}a novel semantic machine translation evaluation metric.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Patrick Littell, Samuel Larkin, Darlene Stewart, Michel Simard, Cyril Goutte, Chi-kiu Lo
The WMT18 shared task on parallel corpus filtering (Koehn et al., 2018b) challenged teams to score sentence pairs from a large high-recall, low-precision web-scraped parallel corpus (Koehn et al., 2018a).