Verification of the effectiveness of pre-learning in neural machine translation between Early-Modern Japanese literary language and modern colloquial Japanese

Abstract

In this paper, The authors show the effectiveness of pre-learning in old style, new writing style pair and Wikipedia Japanese in neural machine translation from Early-Modern Japanese literary to colloquial Japanese. Early-Modern Japanese literary style is difficult to read easily. In addition, there are quite a few sentences in which Early-Modern Japanese literary styles are translated into modern colloquial Japanese, and it is difficult to create large-scale language pairs.