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cs.CL2019★ 246 cited

CCNet: Extracting High Quality Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data

Guillaume Wenzek, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Alexis Conneau +4

Pre-training text representations have led to significant improvements in many areas of natural language processing. The quality of these models benefits greatly from the size of t…

cs.CL2019

CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs

Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzman +1

Cross-lingual document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. In this paper, we explo…

cs.CL2019

Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scale

Alexis Conneau, Kartikay Khandelwal, Naman Goyal +7

This paper shows that pretraining multilingual language models at scale leads to significant performance gains for a wide range of cross-lingual transfer tasks. We train a Transfor…

cs.CL2019★ 3 cited

Facebook AI's WAT19 Myanmar-English Translation Task Submission

Peng-Jen Chen, Jiajun Shen, Matt Le +5

This paper describes Facebook AI's submission to the WAT 2019 Myanmar-English translation task. Our baseline systems are BPE-based transformer models. We explore methods to leverag…

cs.CL2019★ 67 cited

WikiMatrix: Mining 135M Parallel Sentences in 1620 Language Pairs from Wikipedia

Holger Schwenk, Vishrav Chaudhary, Shuo Sun +2

We present an approach based on multilingual sentence embeddings to automatically extract parallel sentences from the content of Wikipedia articles in 85 languages, including sever…

cs.CL2019

Low-Resource Corpus Filtering using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings

Vishrav Chaudhary, Yuqing Tang, Francisco Guzmán +2

In this paper, we describe our submission to the WMT19 low-resource parallel corpus filtering shared task. Our main approach is based on the LASER toolkit (Language-Agnostic SEnten…

cs.CL2019

The FLoRes Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali-English and Sinhala-English

Francisco Guzmán, Peng-Jen Chen, Myle Ott +5

For machine translation, a vast majority of language pairs in the world are considered low-resource because they have little parallel data available. Besides the technical challeng…