Shterionov, Dimitar ORCID: 0000-0001-6300-797X, Wagner, Joachim ORCID: 0000-0002-8290-3849 and do Carmo, Félix ORCID: 0000-0003-4193-3854 (2019) APE through neural and statistical MT with augmented data: ADAPT/DCU submission to the WMT 2019 APE Shared task. In: Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19), 01-02 Aug 2019, Florence, Italy.
Abstract
Automatic post-editing (APE) can be reduced to a machine translation (MT) task, where the source is the output of a specific MT system and the target is its post-edited variant. However, this approach does not consider context information that can be found in the original source of the MT system. Thus a better approach is to employ multi-source MT, where two input sequences are considered – the original source and the MT output.
Extra context information can be introduced in the form of extra tokens that identify certain global properties of a group of segments, added as a prefix or a suffix to each segment. Successfully applied in domain adaptation of MT as well as on APE, this technique deserves further attention. In this work we investigate multi-source neural APE (or NPE) systems with training data which has been augmented with two types of extra context tokens. We experiment with authentic and synthetic data provided by WMT 2019 and submit our results to the APE shared task. We also experiment with using statistical machine translation (SMT) methods for APE. While our systems score bellow the baseline, we consider this work a step towards understanding the added value of extra context in the case of APE.
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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 DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Bojar, Ondřej, Chatterjee, Rajen, Federmann, Christian and Fishel, Mark, (eds.) Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, Day 2). 3. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). |
Publisher: | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-5415 |
Copyright Information: | © 2019 ACL. CC-BY-4.0 |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106), European Regional Development Fund, European Unions Horizon 2020 under the EDGE COFUND Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement no. 713567, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number 13/RC/2077. |
ID Code: | 23917 |
Deposited On: | 06 Dec 2019 09:59 by Joachim Wagner . Last Modified 08 Nov 2021 15:16 |
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