TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing back-translation as a corpus generation strategy for non-English tasks: A study in reading comprehension and word sense disambiguation
AU - Monsalve, Fabricio
AU - Rivas-Rojas, Kervy
AU - Cabezudo, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla
AU - Oncevay-Marcos, Arturo
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Corpora curated by experts have sustained Natural Language Processing mainly in English, but the expensiveness of corpora creation is a barrier for the development in further languages. Thus, we propose a corpus generation strategy that only requires a machine translation system between English and the target language in both directions, where we filter the best translations by computing automatic translation metrics and the task performance score. By studying Reading Comprehension in Spanish and Word Sense Disambiguation in Portuguese, we identified that a more quality-oriented metric has high potential in the corpora selection without degrading the task performance. We conclude that it is possible to systematise the building of quality corpora using machine translation and automatic metrics, besides some prior effort to clean and process the data.
AB - Corpora curated by experts have sustained Natural Language Processing mainly in English, but the expensiveness of corpora creation is a barrier for the development in further languages. Thus, we propose a corpus generation strategy that only requires a machine translation system between English and the target language in both directions, where we filter the best translations by computing automatic translation metrics and the task performance score. By studying Reading Comprehension in Spanish and Word Sense Disambiguation in Portuguese, we identified that a more quality-oriented metric has high potential in the corpora selection without degrading the task performance. We conclude that it is possible to systematise the building of quality corpora using machine translation and automatic metrics, besides some prior effort to clean and process the data.
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
SP - 81
EP - 89
BT - LAW 2019 - 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Proceedings of the Workshop
ER -