Abstract:Low-resource, especially endangered languages are often overlooked in a majority of NLP tasks. For instance, in neural machine translation (NMT), the aim is to map text from one language into another. Although many advances have been made in developing NMT systems for natural language, little research has been done on understanding how the word ordering and lexical similarity between the source and target language affect translation performance. Specifically, in the case of low-resource and endangered language… Show more
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