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Syntax-informed interactive neural machine translation

Gupta, Kamal Kumar, Haque, Rejwanul orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1680-0099, Ekbal, Asif, Bhattacharyya, Pushpak and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2020) Syntax-informed interactive neural machine translation. In: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 19-24 July 2020, Glasgow, UK (Online).

Abstract
In interactive machine translation (MT), human translators correct errors in automatic translations in collaboration with the MT systems, and this is an effective way to improve productivity gain in translation. Phrase-based statistical MT (PB-SMT) has been the mainstream approach to MT for the past 30 years, both in academia and industry. Neural MT (NMT), an end-to-end learning approach to MT, represents the current state-of-the-art in MT research. The recent studies on interactive MT have indicated that NMT can significantly outperform PB-SMT. In this work, first we investigate the possibility of integrating lexical syntactic descriptions in the form of supertags into the state-of-the-art NMT model, Transformer. Then, we explore whether integration of supertags into Transformer could indeed reduce human efforts in translation in an interactive-predictive platform. From our investigation we found that our syntax-aware interactive NMT (INMT) framework significantly reduces simulated human efforts in the French–to–English and Hindi–to–English translation tasks, achieving a 2.65 point absolute corresponding to 5.65% relative improvement and a 6.55 point absolute corresponding to 19.1% relative improvement, respectively, in terms of word prediction accuracy (WPA) over the respective baselines.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Computational linguistics
Computer Science > Computer engineering
Computer Science > Machine learning
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: In IJCNN 2020: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. . IEEE.
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207491
Copyright Information:© 2020 The Authors
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres Programme (Grant No. 13/RC/2106), European Regional Development Fund, Young Faculty Research Fellowship (YFRF), supported by Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics and IT, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, being implemented by Digital India Corporation (formerly MediaLab Asia)
ID Code:24560
Deposited On:22 Jul 2020 12:52 by Rejwanul Haque . Last Modified 07 Jan 2022 16:51
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