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Improving character-based decoding using target-side morphological information for neural machine translation

Passban, Peyman, Liu, Qun orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7000-1792 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2018) Improving character-based decoding using target-side morphological information for neural machine translation. In: 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. (NAACL 2018), 1-6 June 2018, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Abstract
Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) has emerged as a powerful alternative to conventional statistical approaches. However, its performance drops considerably in the presence of morphologically rich languages (MRLs). Neural engines usually fail to tackle the large vocabulary and high out-of-vocabulary (OOV) word rate of MRLs. Therefore, it is not suitable to exploit existing word-based models to translate this set of languages. In this paper, we propose an extension to the state-of-the-art model of Chung et al. (2016), which works at the character level and boosts the decoder with target-side morphological information. In our architecture, an additional morphology table is plugged into the model. Each time the decoder samples from a target vocabulary, the table sends auxiliary signals from the most relevant affixes in order to enrich the decoder’s current state and constrain it to provide better predictions. We evaluated our model to translate English into German, Russian, and Turkish as three MRLs and observed significant improvements.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
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 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Long Papers). 1. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1006
Copyright Information:© 2018 Association for Computational Linguistics
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:23347
Deposited On:22 May 2019 15:09 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 22 May 2019 15:09
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