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Tailoring neural architectures for translating from morphologically rich languages

Passban, Peyman, Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 and Liu, Qun orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7000-1792 (2018) Tailoring neural architectures for translating from morphologically rich languages. In: 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Abstract
A morphologically complex word (MCW) is a hierarchical constituent with meaning-preserving subunits, so word-based models which rely on surface forms might not be powerful enough to translate such structures. When translating from morphologically rich languages (MRLs), a source word could be mapped to several words or even a full sentence on the target side, which means an MCW should not be treated as an atomic unit. In order to provide better translations for MRLs, we boost the existing neural machine translation (NMT) architecture with a doublechannel encoder and a double-attentive decoder. The main goal targeted in this research is to provide richer information on the encoder side and redesign the decoder accordingly to benefit from such information. Our experimental results demonstrate that we could achieve our goal as the proposed model outperforms existing subword- and character-based architectures and showed significant improvements on translating from German, Russian, and Turkish into English.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:morphologically complex word; neural machine translation; Farsi; German; Russian; Turkish
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Official URL:https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1265
Copyright Information:© Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology which is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund.
ID Code:23195
Deposited On:17 Apr 2019 12:07 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 17 Apr 2019 12:07
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