Generative-Adversarial Networks for Low-Resource Language Data Augmentation in Machine Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00071v1
• Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:02:00 GMT
• Title: Generative-Adversarial Networks for Low-Resource Language Data Augmentation in Machine Translation
• Authors: Linda Zeng,
• Abstract summary: We propose utilizing a generative-adrial network (GAN) to augment low-resource language data. Our model shows potential at data augmentation, generating monolingual language data with sentences such as "ask me that healthy lunch im cooking up"
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems struggle when translating to and from low-resource languages, which lack large-scale data corpora for models to use for training. As manual data curation is expensive and time-consuming, we propose utilizing a generative-adversarial network (GAN) to augment low-resource language data. When training on a very small amount of language data (under 20,000 sentences) in a simulated low-resource setting, our model shows potential at data augmentation, generating monolingual language data with sentences such as "ask me that healthy lunch im cooking up," and "my grandfather work harder than your grandfather before." Our novel data augmentation approach takes the first step in investigating the capability of GANs in low-resource NMT, and our results suggest that there is promise for future extension of GANs to low-resource NMT.

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