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Adapting NMT to caption translation inWikimedia Commons for low-resource languages

@article{Poncelas2019AdaptingNT,
  title={Adapting NMT to caption translation inWikimedia Commons for low-resource languages},
  author={Alberto Poncelas and Kepa Sarasola and Meghan Dowling and Andy Way and Gorka Labaka and I{\~n}aki Alegria},
  journal={Proces. del Leng. Natural},
  year={2019},
  volume={63},
  pages={33-40}
}
This paper presents a successful domain adaptation of a general neural machine translation (NMT) system using a bilingual corpus created with captions for images inWikimedia Commons for the Spanish-Basque and English-Irish pairs. 
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