Silo NLP's Participation at WAT2022

Abstract

This paper provides the system description of "Silo NLP's" submission to the Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2022). We have participated in the Indic Multimodal tasks (English→Hindi, English→Malayalam, and English→Bengali, Multimodal Translation). For text-only translation, we trained Transformers from scratch and fine-tuned mBART-50 models. For multimodal translation, we used the same mBART architecture, and extracted object tags from the images to use as visual features concatenated with the text sequence.Our submission tops many tasks including English→Hindi multimodal translation (evaluation test), English→Malayalam textonly and multimodal translation (evaluation test), English→Bengali multimodal translation (challenge test), and English→Bengali text-only translation (evaluation test).cz/bengali-visual-genome/ wat-2022-english-bengali-multim 2 All except the EN-HI and EN-ML text-only systems.3 https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/ repository/xmlui/handle/11234/1-3267