Neural machine translation with sentence-level topic context

K Chen, R Wang, M Utiyama… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2019ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional neural machine translation (NMT) methods use the word-level context to predict
target language translation while neglecting the sentence-level context, which has been
shown to be beneficial for translation prediction in statistical machine translation. This paper
represents the sentence-level context as latent topic representations by using a convolution
neural network, and designs a topic attention to integrate source sentence-level topic
context information into both attention-based and Transformer-based NMT. In particular, our …
Traditional neural machine translation (NMT) methods use the word-level context to predict target language translation while neglecting the sentence-level context, which has been shown to be beneficial for translation prediction in statistical machine translation. This paper represents the sentence-level context as latent topic representations by using a convolution neural network, and designs a topic attention to integrate source sentence-level topic context information into both attention-based and Transformer-based NMT. In particular, our method can improve the performance of NMT by modeling source topics and translations jointly. Experiments on the large-scale LDC Chinese-to-English translation tasks and WMT'14 English-to-German translation tasks show that the proposed approach can achieve significant improvements compared with baseline systems.
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