Affiliations: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India
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Corresponding author. Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India. E-mail: sahinurlaskar.nits@gmail.com.
Abstract: Language translation is essential to bring the world closer and plays a significant part in building a community among people of different linguistic backgrounds. Machine translation dramatically helps in removing the language barrier and allows easier communication among linguistically diverse communities. Due to the unavailability of resources, major languages of the world are accounted as low-resource languages. This leads to a challenging task of automating translation among various such languages to benefit indigenous speakers. This article investigates neural machine translation for the English–Assamese resource-poor language pair by tackling insufficient data and out-of-vocabulary problems. We have also proposed an approach of data augmentation-based NMT, which exploits synthetic parallel data and shows significantly improved translation accuracy for English-to-Assamese and Assamese-to-English translation and obtained state-of-the-art results.
