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Translation word-level auto-completion: what can we achieve out of the box?

Moslem, Yasmin orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4595-6877, Haque, Rejwanul orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1680-0099 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2022) Translation word-level auto-completion: what can we achieve out of the box? In: Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 7-8 Dec 2022, Abu Dhabi, UAR and Online.

Abstract
Research on Machine Translation (MT) has achieved important breakthroughs in several areas. While there is much more to be done in order to build on this success, we believe that the language industry needs better ways to take full advantage of current achievements. Due to a combination of factors, including time, resources, and skills, businesses tend to apply pragmatism into their AI workflows. Hence, they concentrate more on outcomes, e.g. delivery, shipping, releases, and features, and adopt high-level working production solutions, where possible. Among the features thought to be helpful for translators are sentence-level and word-level translation autosuggestion and auto-completion. Suggesting alternatives can inspire translators and limit their need to refer to external resources, which hopefully boosts their productivity. This work describes our submissions to WMT’s shared task on word-level auto-completion, for the Chinese-to-English, English-to-Chinese, German-to-English, and English-to-German language directions. We investigate the possibility of using pre-trained models and out-of-the-box features from available libraries. We employ random sampling to generate diverse alternatives, which reveals good results. Furthermore, we introduce our open-source API, based on CTranslate2, to serve translations, auto-suggestions, and autocompletions.
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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 Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Official URL:https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.119/
Copyright Information:© 2022 The Authors.
ID Code:28324
Deposited On:10 May 2023 16:21 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 10 May 2023 16:21
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