Moslem, Yasmin ORCID: 0000-0003-4595-6877, Haque, Rejwanul ORCID: 0000-0003-1680-0099, Kelleher, John D. ORCID: 0000-0001-6462-3248 and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2023) Adaptive machine translation with large language models. In: 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023), 12-15 June 2023, Tampere, Finland.
Abstract
Consistency is a key requirement of highquality translation. It is especially important
to adhere to pre-approved terminology and
adapt to corrected translations in domainspecific projects. Machine translation (MT)
has achieved significant progress in the
area of domain adaptation. However,
real-time adaptation remains challenging.
Large-scale language models (LLMs) have
recently shown interesting capabilities of
in-context learning, where they learn to
replicate certain input-output text generation
patterns, without further fine-tuning. By
feeding an LLM at inference time with a
prompt that consists of a list of translation
pairs, it can then simulate the domain and
style characteristics. This work aims to
investigate how we can utilize in-context
learning to improve real-time adaptive MT.
Our extensive experiments show promising
results at translation time. For example,
LLMs can adapt to a set of in-domain
sentence pairs and/or terminology while
translating a new sentence. We observe
that the translation quality with few-shot incontext learning can surpass that of strong
encoder-decoder MT systems, especially
for high-resource languages. Moreover,
we investigate whether we can combine
MT from strong encoder-decoder models
with fuzzy matches, which can further
improve translation quality, especially for
less supported languages. We conduct our
experiments across five diverse language
pairs, namely English-to-Arabic (EN-AR),
English-to-Chinese (EN-ZH), English-toFrench (EN-FR), English-to-Kinyarwanda
(EN-RW), and English-to-Spanish (EN-ES).
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 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023. . European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). |
Publisher: | European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) |
Official URL: | https://aclanthology.org/2023.eamt-1.22/ |
Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors. |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real) under Grant No. 18/CRT/6224, Science Foundation Ireland 9SFI) Grant No. 13/RC/2106 P2, Microsoft Research |
ID Code: | 28326 |
Deposited On: | 02 Jun 2023 13:44 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 22 Sep 2023 09:52 |
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