Research Article

A Joint Back-Translation and Transfer Learning Method for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Table 2

The BLEU score of the joint method and three baselines on Uygur-Chinese.

MethodBLEU score

Back-translation (BT)36.61
Parent-child architecture34.93
Hierarchical transfer learning architecture35.51
Parent-child architecture + BT37.01
Hierarchical transfer learning architecture + BT37.41