Michelle Wastl

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[Zurich Computational Linguistics Group @cl_uzh]

Congratulations to @MichelleWastl on receiving an UZH Semester Award for her Master's thesis, «Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection», completed under the supervision of Professor @RicoSennrich.

[Michelle Wastl @MichelleWastl]

@CuiDing_CL @j_vamvas @RicoSennrich Cui, so are you! It was such a pleasure working with you!

[Michelle Wastl @MichelleWastl]

Did you know that #MachineTranslation models can be used as #ZeroShot detectors of translation direction in parallel texts?

Take a look at this #preprint, in which @j_vamvas, @RicoSennrich and I describe how to do so: https://t.co/ju5Jzcwsm1

#TranslationDirectionDetection #NLP

[Rico Sennrich @RicoSennrich]

Check out this wonderful result of Michelle's master thesis!

Controlled experiments and anecdotal evidence suggest that translation direction of parallel data can matter for MT training, but how to execute filtering at scale? This works shows an effective zero-shot strategy.