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Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn, Alberto Poncelas and Andy Way

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AMTA 2018 Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2018)

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SMT versus NMT: Preliminary comparisons for Irish

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2018

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March

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Boston, MA, USA

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17-MAR-18

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21-MAR-18

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a preliminary comparison of statistical machine translation (SMT) and neural machine translation (NMT) for English→Irish in the fixed domain of public administration. We discuss the challenges for SMT and NMT of a less-resourced language such as Irish, and show that while an out-of-the-box NMT system may not fare quite as well as our tailor-made domain-specific SMT system, the future may still be promising for EN→GA NMT.

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https://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-2202

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Part-funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (DCHG) and SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2016) and is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.