Indian language machine translation performance is hampered due to the lack
of large scale multi-lingual sentence aligned corpora and robust benchmarks.
Through this paper, we provide and analyse an automated framework to obtain
such a corpus for Indian language neural machine translation (NMT) systems. Our
pipeline consists of a baseline NMT system, a retrieval module, and an
alignment module that is used to work with publicly available websites such as
press releases by the government. The main contribution towards this effort is
to obtain an incremental method that uses the above pipeline to iteratively
improve the size of the corpus as well as improve each of the components of our
system. Through our work, we also evaluate the design choices such as the
choice of pivoting language and the effect of iterative incremental increase in
corpus size. Our work in addition to providing an automated framework also
results in generating a relatively larger corpus as compared to existing
corpora that are available for Indian languages. This corpus helps us obtain
substantially improved results on the publicly available WAT evaluation
benchmark and other standard evaluation benchmarks.Comment: 10 pages, few figures, Preprint under revie