Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages is challenging. The lack of large-scale datasets affects the performance of data-hungry algorithms. To overcome this, we employ data augmentation to enlarge the training data for the task of response selection in multi-turn retrieval-based chatbots. We automatically translated a large-scale English dataset to Brazilian Portuguese (PT_BR) and used it to train a deep neural network. For a COVID-19 chatbot system, our results show that the combination of training with the translated dataset followed by a fine-tuning with the context-specific dataset provides the best results in terms of recall for all studied models. In addition, we make available the translated large-scale PT_BR dataset.
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