Sentence-level agreement for neural machine translation

M Yang, R Wang, K Chen, M Utiyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
Proceedings of the 57th annual meeting of the association for …, 2019aclanthology.org
The training objective of neural machine translation (NMT) is to minimize the loss between
the words in the translated sentences and those in the references. In NMT, there is a natural
correspondence between the source sentence and the target sentence. However, this
relationship has only been represented using the entire neural network and the training
objective is computed in word-level. In this paper, we propose a sentence-level agreement
module to directly minimize the difference between the representation of source and target …
Abstract
The training objective of neural machine translation (NMT) is to minimize the loss between the words in the translated sentences and those in the references. In NMT, there is a natural correspondence between the source sentence and the target sentence. However, this relationship has only been represented using the entire neural network and the training objective is computed in word-level. In this paper, we propose a sentence-level agreement module to directly minimize the difference between the representation of source and target sentence. The proposed agreement module can be integrated into NMT as an additional training objective function and can also be used to enhance the representation of the source sentences. Empirical results on the NIST Chinese-to-English and WMT English-to-German tasks show the proposed agreement module can significantly improve the NMT performance.
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