Calixto, Iacer, Stein, Daniel, Matusov, Evgeny, Lohar, Pintu ORCID: 0000-0002-5328-1585, Castilho, Sheila ORCID: 0000-0002-8416-6555 and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2017) Using images to improve machine-translating E-commerce product listings. In: 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017), 3-7 April 2017, Valencia, Spain. ISBN 978-1-945626-35-7
Abstract
In this paper we study the impact of using
images to machine-translate user-generated ecommerce product listings. We study how
a multi-modal Neural Machine Translation
(NMT) model compares to two text-only approaches: a conventional state-of-the-art attentional NMT and a Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) model. User-generated product
listings often do not constitute grammatical
or well-formed sentences. More often than
not, they consist of the juxtaposition of short
phrases or keywords. We train our models
end-to-end as well as use text-only and multimodal NMT models for re-ranking n-best lists
generated by an SMT model. We qualitatively evaluate our user-generated training data
also analyse how adding synthetic data impacts the results. We evaluate our models
quantitatively using BLEU and TER and find
that (i) additional synthetic data has a general
positive impact on text-only and multi-modal
NMT models, and that (ii) using a multi-modal
NMT model for re-ranking n-best lists improves TER significantly across different nbest list sizes.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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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 Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers. 2. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). ISBN 978-1-945626-35-7 |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Official URL: | http://aclweb.org/anthology/E17-2101 |
Copyright Information: | © 2017 ACL |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund. |
ID Code: | 23066 |
Deposited On: | 08 Mar 2019 10:44 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 05 May 2023 16:28 |
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