Gupta, Kamal Kumar, Haque, Rejwanul ORCID: 0000-0003-1680-0099, Ekbal, Asif, Bhattacharyya, Pushpak and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2020) Modelling source- and target-language syntactic Information as conditional context in interactive neural machine translation. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2-6 Nov 2020, Lisboa, Portugal.
Abstract
In interactive machine translation (MT),
human translators correct errors in auto-
matic translations in collaboration with the
MT systems, which is seen as an effective
way to improve the productivity gain in
translation. In this study, we model source-
language syntactic constituency parse and
target-language syntactic descriptions in
the form of supertags as conditional con-
text for interactive prediction in neural
MT (NMT). We found that the supertags
significantly improve productivity gain in
translation in interactive-predictive NMT
(INMT), while syntactic parsing somewhat
found to be effective in reducing human
efforts in translation. Furthermore, when
we model this source- and target-language
syntactic information together as the con-
ditional context, both types complement
each other and our fully syntax-informed
INMT model shows statistically significant
reduction in human efforts for a French–
to–English translation task in a reference-
simulated setting, achieving 4.30 points
absolute (corresponding to 9.18% relative)
improvement in terms of word prediction
accuracy (WPA) and 4.84 points absolute
(corresponding to 9.01% relative) reduc-
tion in terms of word stroke ratio (WSR)
over the baseline.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Neural Machine Translation; Interactive Neural Machine Translation |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Computational linguistics Computer Science > Machine learning 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 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, (EAMT 2020). . European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). |
Publisher: | European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) |
Official URL: | https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.eamt-1.21 |
Copyright Information: | © 2020 The Authors. (CC-BY-ND-4.0) |
Funders: | TDIL, MeiTY, Govt. of India for the project ”Hindi to English Machine Translation for Judicial Domain [11(3)/2015-HCC(TDIL], Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centres Programme (Grant No. 13/RC/2106) and is cofunded under the European Regional Development Fund |
ID Code: | 24420 |
Deposited On: | 30 Apr 2020 12:32 by Rejwanul Haque . Last Modified 10 Mar 2021 12:26 |
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