Fast lexically constrained decoding with dynamic beam allocation for neural machine translation

M Post, D Vilar - arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06609, 2018 - arxiv.org
The end-to-end nature of neural machine translation (NMT) removes many ways of manually
guiding the translation process that were available in older paradigms. Recent work …

Guiding neural machine translation with retrieved translation pieces

J Zhang, M Utiyama, E Sumita, G Neubig… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
One of the difficulties of neural machine translation (NMT) is the recall and appropriate
translation of low-frequency words or phrases. In this paper, we propose a simple, fast, and …

Code-switching for enhancing NMT with pre-specified translation

K Song, Y Zhang, H Yu, W Luo, K Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Leveraging user-provided translation to constrain NMT has practical significance. Existing
methods can be classified into two main categories, namely the use of placeholder tags for …

EDITOR: An edit-based transformer with repositioning for neural machine translation with soft lexical constraints

W Xu, M Carpuat - Transactions of the Association for Computational …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
We introduce an Edi t-Based T ransf O rmer with R epositioning (EDITOR), which makes
sequence generation flexible by seamlessly allowing users to specify preferences in output …

Neural machine translation advised by statistical machine translation

X Wang, Z Lu, Z Tu, H Li, D Xiong… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach to machine translation that
has made great progress in recent years. However, recent studies show that NMT generally …

Towards neural phrase-based machine translation

PS Huang, C Wang, S Huang, D Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present Neural Phrase-based Machine Translation (NPMT). Our method
explicitly models the phrase structures in output sequences using Sleep-WAke Networks …

Three strategies to improve one-to-many multilingual translation

Y Wang, J Zhang, F Zhai, J Xu… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Due to the benefits of model compactness, multilingual translation (including many-to-one,
many-to-many and one-to-many) based on a universal encoder-decoder architecture …

Unsupervised neural machine translation with smt as posterior regularization

S Ren, Z Zhang, S Liu, M Zhou, S Ma - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2019 - aaai.org
Without real bilingual corpus available, unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (NMT)
typically requires pseudo parallel data generated with the back-translation method for the …

Interactive attention for neural machine translation

F Meng, Z Lu, H Li, Q Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05011, 2016 - arxiv.org
Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic
alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of …

Translating phrases in neural machine translation

X Wang, Z Tu, D Xiong, M Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01980, 2017 - arxiv.org
Phrases play an important role in natural language understanding and machine translation
(Sag et al., 2002; Villavicencio et al., 2005). However, it is difficult to integrate them into …