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Main Authors: Frontull, Samuel, Moser, Georg
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08819
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author Frontull, Samuel
Moser, Georg
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Moser, Georg
contents This paper explores the impact of different back-translation approaches on machine translation for Ladin, specifically the Val Badia variant. Given the limited amount of parallel data available for this language (only 18k Ladin-Italian sentence pairs), we investigate the performance of a multilingual neural machine translation model fine-tuned for Ladin-Italian. In addition to the available authentic data, we synthesise further translations by using three different models: a fine-tuned neural model, a rule-based system developed specifically for this language pair, and a large language model. Our experiments show that all approaches achieve comparable translation quality in this low-resource scenario, yet round-trip translations highlight differences in model performance.
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spellingShingle Rule-Based, Neural and LLM Back-Translation: Comparative Insights from a Variant of Ladin
Frontull, Samuel
Moser, Georg
Computation and Language
This paper explores the impact of different back-translation approaches on machine translation for Ladin, specifically the Val Badia variant. Given the limited amount of parallel data available for this language (only 18k Ladin-Italian sentence pairs), we investigate the performance of a multilingual neural machine translation model fine-tuned for Ladin-Italian. In addition to the available authentic data, we synthesise further translations by using three different models: a fine-tuned neural model, a rule-based system developed specifically for this language pair, and a large language model. Our experiments show that all approaches achieve comparable translation quality in this low-resource scenario, yet round-trip translations highlight differences in model performance.
title Rule-Based, Neural and LLM Back-Translation: Comparative Insights from a Variant of Ladin
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08819