Preserving formal style in neural machine translation (NMT) is essential, yet often overlooked as an optimization objective of the training processes. This oversight can lead to translations that, though accurate, lac...Preserving formal style in neural machine translation (NMT) is essential, yet often overlooked as an optimization objective of the training processes. This oversight can lead to translations that, though accurate, lack formality. In this paper, we propose how to improve NMT formality with large language models (LLMs), which combines the style transfer and evaluation capabilities of an LLM and the high-quality translation generation ability of NMT models to improve NMT formality. The proposed method (namely INMTF) encompasses two approaches. The first involves a revision approach using an LLM to revise the NMT-generated translation, ensuring a formal translation style. The second approach employs an LLM as a reward model for scoring translation formality, and then uses reinforcement learning algorithms to fine-tune the NMT model to maximize the reward score, thereby enhancing the formality of the generated translations. Considering the substantial parameter size of LLMs, we also explore methods to reduce the computational cost of INMTF. Experimental results demonstrate that INMTF significantly outperforms baselines in terms of translation formality and translation quality, with an improvement of +9.19 style accuracy points in the German-to-English task and +2.16 COMET score in the Russian-to-English task. Furthermore, our work demonstrates the potential of integrating LLMs within NMT frameworks to bridge the gap between NMT outputs and the formality required in various real-world translation scenarios.展开更多
The performance of a machine translation system heavily depends on the quantity and quality of the bilingual language resource. However,getting a parallel corpus,which has a large scale and is of high quality,is a ver...The performance of a machine translation system heavily depends on the quantity and quality of the bilingual language resource. However,getting a parallel corpus,which has a large scale and is of high quality,is a very difficult task especially for low resource languages such as Chinese-Vietnamese. Fortunately,multilingual user generated contents（ UGC）,such as bilingual movie subtitles,provide us access to automatic construction of the parallel corpus. Although the amount of UGC parallel corpora can be considerable,the original corpus is not suitable for statistical machine translation（ SMT） systems. The corpus may contain translation errors,sentence mismatching,free translations,etc. To improve the quality of the bilingual corpus for SMT systems,three filtering methods are proposed： sentence length difference,the semantic of sentence pairs,and machine learning. Experiments are conducted on the Chinese to Vietnamese translation corpus.Experimental results demonstrate that all the three methods effectively improve the corpus quality,and the machine translation performance（ BLEU score） can be improved by 1. 32.展开更多
Thanks to the strong representation capability of pre-trained language models,supervised machine translation models have achieved outstanding performance.However,the performances of these models drop sharply when the ...Thanks to the strong representation capability of pre-trained language models,supervised machine translation models have achieved outstanding performance.However,the performances of these models drop sharply when the scale of the parallel training corpus is limited.Considering the pre-trained language model has a strong ability for monolingual representation,it is the key challenge for machine translation to construct the in-depth relationship between the source and target language by injecting the lexical and syntactic information into pre-trained language models.To alleviate the dependence on the parallel corpus,we propose a Linguistics Knowledge-Driven MultiTask(LKMT)approach to inject part-of-speech and syntactic knowledge into pre-trained models,thus enhancing the machine translation performance.On the one hand,we integrate part-of-speech and dependency labels into the embedding layer and exploit large-scale monolingual corpus to update all parameters of pre-trained language models,thus ensuring the updated language model contains potential lexical and syntactic information.On the other hand,we leverage an extra self-attention layer to explicitly inject linguistic knowledge into the pre-trained language model-enhanced machine translation model.Experiments on the benchmark dataset show that our proposed LKMT approach improves the Urdu-English translation accuracy by 1.97 points and the English-Urdu translation accuracy by 2.42 points,highlighting the effectiveness of our LKMT framework.Detailed ablation experiments confirm the positive impact of part-of-speech and dependency parsing on machine translation.展开更多
Neural Machine Translation is one of the key research directions in Natural Language Processing.However,limited by the scale and quality of parallel corpus,the translation quality of low-resource Neural Machine Transl...Neural Machine Translation is one of the key research directions in Natural Language Processing.However,limited by the scale and quality of parallel corpus,the translation quality of low-resource Neural Machine Translation has always been unsatisfactory.When Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback(RLHF)is applied to lowresource machine translation,commonly encountered issues of substandard preference data quality and the higher cost associated with manual feedback data.Therefore,a more cost-effective method for obtaining feedback data is proposed.At first,optimizing the quality of preference data through the prompt engineering of the Large Language Model(LLM),then combining human feedback to complete the evaluation.In this way,the reward model could acquire more semantic information and human preferences during the training phase,thereby enhancing feedback efficiency and the result’s quality.Experimental results demonstrate that compared with the traditional RLHF method,our method has been proven effective on multiple datasets and exhibits a notable improvement of 1.07 in BLUE.Meanwhile,it is also more favorably received in the assessments conducted by human evaluators and GPT-4o.展开更多
One of uses of machine translation(MT),is helping readers to read for the gist of a foreign text through a draft transla tion produced by MT engines.Rapid post-editing,as Jeffrey Allen defines it as a"strictly mi...One of uses of machine translation(MT),is helping readers to read for the gist of a foreign text through a draft transla tion produced by MT engines.Rapid post-editing,as Jeffrey Allen defines it as a"strictly minimal editing on texts in order to re move blatant and significant errors without considering stylistic issues",can help present the reader with a roughly comprehensi ble translation as quickly as possible.The purpose of this article is on a proposed set of rapid post-editing guidelines for Biblical Chinese-English MT,with its application on editing the English MT version of Chapter one of Mark(马尔谷福音) of the Chi nese Catholic Bible(天主教思高本圣经) as an example.展开更多
As a kind of ancillary translation tool, Machine Translation has been paid increasing attention to and received different kinds of study by a great deal of researchers and scholars for a long time. To know the definit...As a kind of ancillary translation tool, Machine Translation has been paid increasing attention to and received different kinds of study by a great deal of researchers and scholars for a long time. To know the definition of Machine Translation and to analyse its benefits and problems are significant for translators in order to make good use of Machine Translation, and helpful to develop and consummate Machine Translation Systems in the future.展开更多
Machine Translation are increasingly welcomed and used during recent years with the commonly application of Internet and the acceleration of the integration of world economy. To know about the history and development ...Machine Translation are increasingly welcomed and used during recent years with the commonly application of Internet and the acceleration of the integration of world economy. To know about the history and development process of Machine Translation during 1930s-1970 s could help researchers gain new insights through restudying old material.展开更多
After more than 70 years of evolution,great achievements have been made in machine translation.Especially in recent years,translation quality has been greatly improved with the emergence of neural machine translation(...After more than 70 years of evolution,great achievements have been made in machine translation.Especially in recent years,translation quality has been greatly improved with the emergence of neural machine translation(NMT).In this article,we first review the history of machine translation from rule-based machine translation to example-based machine translation and statistical machine translation.We then introduce NMT in more detail,including the basic framework and the current dominant framework,Transformer,as well as multilingual translation models to deal with the data sparseness problem.In addition,we introduce cutting-edge simultaneous translation methods that achieve a balance between translation quality and latency.We then describe various products and applications of machine translation.At the end of this article,we briefly discuss challenges and future research directions in this field.展开更多
Recently dependency information has been used in different ways to improve neural machine translation.For example,add dependency labels to the hidden states of source words.Or the contiguous information of a source wo...Recently dependency information has been used in different ways to improve neural machine translation.For example,add dependency labels to the hidden states of source words.Or the contiguous information of a source word would be found according to the dependency tree and then be learned independently and be added into Neural Machine Translation(NMT)model as a unit in various ways.However,these works are all limited to the use of dependency information to enrich the hidden states of source words.Since many works in Statistical Machine Translation(SMT)and NMT have proven the validity and potential of using dependency information.We believe that there are still many ways to apply dependency information in the NMT structure.In this paper,we explore a new way to use dependency information to improve NMT.Based on the theory of local attention mechanism,we present Dependency-based Local Attention Approach(DLAA),a new attention mechanism that allowed the NMT model to trace the dependency words related to the current translating words.Our work also indicates that dependency information could help to supervise attention mechanism.Experiment results on WMT 17 Chineseto-English translation task shared training datasets show that our model is effective and perform distinctively on long sentence translation.展开更多
The translation quality of neural machine translation(NMT)systems depends largely on the quality of large-scale bilingual parallel corpora available.Research shows that under the condition of limited resources,the per...The translation quality of neural machine translation(NMT)systems depends largely on the quality of large-scale bilingual parallel corpora available.Research shows that under the condition of limited resources,the performance of NMT is greatly reduced,and a large amount of high-quality bilingual parallel data is needed to train a competitive translation model.However,not all languages have large-scale and high-quality bilingual corpus resources available.In these cases,improving the quality of the corpora has become the main focus to increase the accuracy of the NMT results.This paper proposes a new method to improve the quality of data by using data cleaning,data expansion,and other measures to expand the data at the word and sentence-level,thus improving the richness of the bilingual data.The long short-term memory(LSTM)language model is also used to ensure the smoothness of sentence construction in the process of sentence construction.At the same time,it uses a variety of processing methods to improve the quality of the bilingual data.Experiments using three standard test sets are conducted to validate the proposed method;the most advanced fairseq-transformer NMT system is used in the training.The results show that the proposed method has worked well on improving the translation results.Compared with the state-of-the-art methods,the BLEU value of our method is increased by 2.34 compared with that of the baseline.展开更多
Neural Machine Translation(NMT)is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation,overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems.Although NMT based systems have gained their popul...Neural Machine Translation(NMT)is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation,overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems.Although NMT based systems have gained their popularity in commercial translation applications,there is still plenty of room for improvement.Being the most popular search algorithm in NMT,beam search is vital to the translation result.However,traditional beam search can produce duplicate or missing translation due to its target sequence selection strategy.Aiming to alleviate this problem,this paper proposed neural machine translation improvements based on a novel beam search evaluation function.And we use reinforcement learning to train a translation evaluation system to select better candidate words for generating translations.In the experiments,we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods.CASIA corpus and the 1,000,000 pairs of bilingual corpora of NiuTrans are used in our experiments.The experiment results prove that the proposed methods can effectively improve the English to Chinese translation quality.展开更多
Neural Machine Translation(NMT)based system is an important technology for translation applications.However,there is plenty of rooms for the improvement of NMT.In the process of NMT,traditional word vector cannot dist...Neural Machine Translation(NMT)based system is an important technology for translation applications.However,there is plenty of rooms for the improvement of NMT.In the process of NMT,traditional word vector cannot distinguish the same words under different parts of speech(POS).Aiming to alleviate this problem,this paper proposed a new word vector training method based on POS feature.It can efficiently improve the quality of translation by adding POS feature to the training process of word vectors.In the experiments,we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods.The experimental result shows that the proposed method is beneficial to improve the quality of translation from English into Chinese.展开更多
This paper compared several methods of machine translation(MT) design, drew lessons from the idea of phrase structure, GPSG, HPSG and Corpus, took words as the core, built a set of word rules, and developed an English...This paper compared several methods of machine translation(MT) design, drew lessons from the idea of phrase structure, GPSG, HPSG and Corpus, took words as the core, built a set of word rules, and developed an English Chinese Machine Translation System based on it. The paper also discussed some technical problems on building MT system, and provided an estimation principle for using rules. With this principle the syntax ambiguities in MT system are solved better.展开更多
How to select appropriate wolds in a translation is a significant problem in current studies of machine translation, because it directly decides the translation quality. This paper uses an unsupervised corpus-based st...How to select appropriate wolds in a translation is a significant problem in current studies of machine translation, because it directly decides the translation quality. This paper uses an unsupervised corpus-based statisticalmethod to select target word. Based on the concurrence probabilities, all ambiguous words in a sentence are disambiguated at the same time. Because a corpus of limited size cannot cover all the collocation of words, we use an effectivesmoothing method to increase the coverage of the corpus. In ceder to solve the problem in our English-Chinese MT system, we have applied the algorithm to disambiguate senses of verbs, nouns and adjectitves in target language, and theresult shows that the approach is very promising.展开更多
This paper describes the experiments with Korean-to-Vietnamese statistical machine translation(SMT). The fact that Korean is a morphologically complex language that does not have clear optimal word boundaries causes a...This paper describes the experiments with Korean-to-Vietnamese statistical machine translation(SMT). The fact that Korean is a morphologically complex language that does not have clear optimal word boundaries causes a major problem of translating into or from Korean. To solve this problem, we present a method to conduct a Korean morphological analysis by using a pre-analyzed partial word-phrase dictionary(PWD).Besides, we build a Korean-Vietnamese parallel corpus for training SMT models by collecting text from multilingual magazines. Then, we apply such a morphology analysis to Korean sentences that are included in the collected parallel corpus as a preprocessing step. The experiment results demonstrate a remarkable improvement of Korean-to-Vietnamese translation quality in term of bi-lingual evaluation understudy(BLEU).展开更多
This paper gives the representation of rules, the strategy of rule controlling and the existing problems in English Chinese Machine Translation(MT) named BT863 I. Then it puts forward a method for processing these rul...This paper gives the representation of rules, the strategy of rule controlling and the existing problems in English Chinese Machine Translation(MT) named BT863 I. Then it puts forward a method for processing these rules based on the decision tree. With this method, some problems such as rule conflic and rule redundancy occurring in BT863 I have been solved and the efficiency of MT system has been improved greatly. This method also has general meaning in the Rule based expert system.展开更多
Teaching evaluation can be divided into different types,additionally their functions and applicable conditions are different.According to different standards,teaching evaluation can be divided into different types:(1)...Teaching evaluation can be divided into different types,additionally their functions and applicable conditions are different.According to different standards,teaching evaluation can be divided into different types:(1)according to different evaluation functions,it can be divided into pre-evaluation,intermediate evaluation,and post-evaluation;(2)according to different evaluation reference standards,it can be divided into relative evaluation,absolute evaluation,and individual difference evaluation;(3)according to different evaluation and analysis methods,it can be divided into qualitative and quantitative evaluation;(4)according to the different evaluation subjects,it can be divided into self-evaluation and others’evaluation.This paper introduced research work using different types of teaching evaluation in the machine translation course according to different situations.The research results showed that the rational selection of different types of teaching evaluation methods and the combination of these methods can greatly promote teaching.展开更多
In the field of natural language processing(NLP),the advancement of neural machine translation has paved the way for cross-lingual research.Yet,most studies in NLP have evaluated the proposed language models on well-r...In the field of natural language processing(NLP),the advancement of neural machine translation has paved the way for cross-lingual research.Yet,most studies in NLP have evaluated the proposed language models on well-refined datasets.We investigatewhether amachine translation approach is suitable for multilingual analysis of unrefined datasets,particularly,chat messages in Twitch.In order to address it,we collected the dataset,which included 7,066,854 and 3,365,569 chat messages from English and Korean streams,respectively.We employed several machine learning classifiers and neural networks with two different types of embedding:word-sequence embedding and the final layer of a pre-trained language model.The results of the employed models indicate that the accuracy difference between English,and English to Korean was relatively high,ranging from 3%to 12%.For Korean data(Korean,and Korean to English),it ranged from 0%to 2%.Therefore,the results imply that translation from a low-resource language(e.g.,Korean)into a high-resource language(e.g.,English)shows higher performance,in contrast to vice versa.Several implications and limitations of the presented results are also discussed.For instance,we suggest the feasibility of translation from resource-poor languages for using the tools of resource-rich languages in further analysis.展开更多
When the Transformer proposed by Google in 2017,it was first used for machine translation tasks and achieved the state of the art at that time.Although the current neural machine translation model can generate high qu...When the Transformer proposed by Google in 2017,it was first used for machine translation tasks and achieved the state of the art at that time.Although the current neural machine translation model can generate high quality translation results,there are still mistranslations and omissions in the translation of key information of long sentences.On the other hand,the most important part in traditional translation tasks is the translation of key information.In the translation results,as long as the key information is translated accurately and completely,even if other parts of the results are translated incorrect,the final translation results’quality can still be guaranteed.In order to solve the problem of mistranslation and missed translation effectively,and improve the accuracy and completeness of long sentence translation in machine translation,this paper proposes a key information fused neural machine translation model based on Transformer.The model proposed in this paper extracts the keywords of the source language text separately as the input of the encoder.After the same encoding as the source language text,it is fused with the output of the source language text encoded by the encoder,then the key information is processed and input into the decoder.With incorporating keyword information from the source language sentence,the model’s performance in the task of translating long sentences is very reliable.In order to verify the effectiveness of the method of fusion of key information proposed in this paper,a series of experiments were carried out on the verification set.The experimental results show that the Bilingual Evaluation Understudy(BLEU)score of the model proposed in this paper on theWorkshop on Machine Translation(WMT)2017 test dataset is higher than the BLEU score of Transformer proposed by Google on the WMT2017 test dataset.The experimental results show the advantages of the model proposed in this paper.展开更多
This paper proposed a method to incorporate syntax-based language models in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. The syntax-based language model used in this paper is based on link grammar,which...This paper proposed a method to incorporate syntax-based language models in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. The syntax-based language model used in this paper is based on link grammar,which is a high lexical formalism. In order to apply language models based on link grammar in phrase-based models,the concept of linked phrases,an extension of the concept of traditional phrases in phrase-based models was brought out. Experiments were conducted and the results showed that the use of syntax-based language models could improve the performance of the phrase-based models greatly.展开更多
文摘Preserving formal style in neural machine translation (NMT) is essential, yet often overlooked as an optimization objective of the training processes. This oversight can lead to translations that, though accurate, lack formality. In this paper, we propose how to improve NMT formality with large language models (LLMs), which combines the style transfer and evaluation capabilities of an LLM and the high-quality translation generation ability of NMT models to improve NMT formality. The proposed method (namely INMTF) encompasses two approaches. The first involves a revision approach using an LLM to revise the NMT-generated translation, ensuring a formal translation style. The second approach employs an LLM as a reward model for scoring translation formality, and then uses reinforcement learning algorithms to fine-tune the NMT model to maximize the reward score, thereby enhancing the formality of the generated translations. Considering the substantial parameter size of LLMs, we also explore methods to reduce the computational cost of INMTF. Experimental results demonstrate that INMTF significantly outperforms baselines in terms of translation formality and translation quality, with an improvement of +9.19 style accuracy points in the German-to-English task and +2.16 COMET score in the Russian-to-English task. Furthermore, our work demonstrates the potential of integrating LLMs within NMT frameworks to bridge the gap between NMT outputs and the formality required in various real-world translation scenarios.
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973Program)(2013CB329303)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61502035)
文摘The performance of a machine translation system heavily depends on the quantity and quality of the bilingual language resource. However,getting a parallel corpus,which has a large scale and is of high quality,is a very difficult task especially for low resource languages such as Chinese-Vietnamese. Fortunately,multilingual user generated contents（ UGC）,such as bilingual movie subtitles,provide us access to automatic construction of the parallel corpus. Although the amount of UGC parallel corpora can be considerable,the original corpus is not suitable for statistical machine translation（ SMT） systems. The corpus may contain translation errors,sentence mismatching,free translations,etc. To improve the quality of the bilingual corpus for SMT systems,three filtering methods are proposed： sentence length difference,the semantic of sentence pairs,and machine learning. Experiments are conducted on the Chinese to Vietnamese translation corpus.Experimental results demonstrate that all the three methods effectively improve the corpus quality,and the machine translation performance（ BLEU score） can be improved by 1. 32.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant(61732005,61972186)Yunnan Provincial Major Science and Technology Special Plan Projects(Nos.202103AA080015,202203AA080004).
文摘Thanks to the strong representation capability of pre-trained language models,supervised machine translation models have achieved outstanding performance.However,the performances of these models drop sharply when the scale of the parallel training corpus is limited.Considering the pre-trained language model has a strong ability for monolingual representation,it is the key challenge for machine translation to construct the in-depth relationship between the source and target language by injecting the lexical and syntactic information into pre-trained language models.To alleviate the dependence on the parallel corpus,we propose a Linguistics Knowledge-Driven MultiTask(LKMT)approach to inject part-of-speech and syntactic knowledge into pre-trained models,thus enhancing the machine translation performance.On the one hand,we integrate part-of-speech and dependency labels into the embedding layer and exploit large-scale monolingual corpus to update all parameters of pre-trained language models,thus ensuring the updated language model contains potential lexical and syntactic information.On the other hand,we leverage an extra self-attention layer to explicitly inject linguistic knowledge into the pre-trained language model-enhanced machine translation model.Experiments on the benchmark dataset show that our proposed LKMT approach improves the Urdu-English translation accuracy by 1.97 points and the English-Urdu translation accuracy by 2.42 points,highlighting the effectiveness of our LKMT framework.Detailed ablation experiments confirm the positive impact of part-of-speech and dependency parsing on machine translation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61862064.
文摘Neural Machine Translation is one of the key research directions in Natural Language Processing.However,limited by the scale and quality of parallel corpus,the translation quality of low-resource Neural Machine Translation has always been unsatisfactory.When Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback(RLHF)is applied to lowresource machine translation,commonly encountered issues of substandard preference data quality and the higher cost associated with manual feedback data.Therefore,a more cost-effective method for obtaining feedback data is proposed.At first,optimizing the quality of preference data through the prompt engineering of the Large Language Model(LLM),then combining human feedback to complete the evaluation.In this way,the reward model could acquire more semantic information and human preferences during the training phase,thereby enhancing feedback efficiency and the result’s quality.Experimental results demonstrate that compared with the traditional RLHF method,our method has been proven effective on multiple datasets and exhibits a notable improvement of 1.07 in BLUE.Meanwhile,it is also more favorably received in the assessments conducted by human evaluators and GPT-4o.
文摘One of uses of machine translation(MT),is helping readers to read for the gist of a foreign text through a draft transla tion produced by MT engines.Rapid post-editing,as Jeffrey Allen defines it as a"strictly minimal editing on texts in order to re move blatant and significant errors without considering stylistic issues",can help present the reader with a roughly comprehensi ble translation as quickly as possible.The purpose of this article is on a proposed set of rapid post-editing guidelines for Biblical Chinese-English MT,with its application on editing the English MT version of Chapter one of Mark(马尔谷福音) of the Chi nese Catholic Bible(天主教思高本圣经) as an example.
文摘As a kind of ancillary translation tool, Machine Translation has been paid increasing attention to and received different kinds of study by a great deal of researchers and scholars for a long time. To know the definition of Machine Translation and to analyse its benefits and problems are significant for translators in order to make good use of Machine Translation, and helpful to develop and consummate Machine Translation Systems in the future.
文摘Machine Translation are increasingly welcomed and used during recent years with the commonly application of Internet and the acceleration of the integration of world economy. To know about the history and development process of Machine Translation during 1930s-1970 s could help researchers gain new insights through restudying old material.
文摘After more than 70 years of evolution,great achievements have been made in machine translation.Especially in recent years,translation quality has been greatly improved with the emergence of neural machine translation(NMT).In this article,we first review the history of machine translation from rule-based machine translation to example-based machine translation and statistical machine translation.We then introduce NMT in more detail,including the basic framework and the current dominant framework,Transformer,as well as multilingual translation models to deal with the data sparseness problem.In addition,we introduce cutting-edge simultaneous translation methods that achieve a balance between translation quality and latency.We then describe various products and applications of machine translation.At the end of this article,we briefly discuss challenges and future research directions in this field.
基金This research was funded in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61871140,61872100,61572153,U1636215,61572492,61672020)the National Key research and Development Plan(Grant No.2018YFB0803504)Open Fund of Beijing Key Laboratory of IOT Information Security Technology(J6V0011104).
文摘Recently dependency information has been used in different ways to improve neural machine translation.For example,add dependency labels to the hidden states of source words.Or the contiguous information of a source word would be found according to the dependency tree and then be learned independently and be added into Neural Machine Translation(NMT)model as a unit in various ways.However,these works are all limited to the use of dependency information to enrich the hidden states of source words.Since many works in Statistical Machine Translation(SMT)and NMT have proven the validity and potential of using dependency information.We believe that there are still many ways to apply dependency information in the NMT structure.In this paper,we explore a new way to use dependency information to improve NMT.Based on the theory of local attention mechanism,we present Dependency-based Local Attention Approach(DLAA),a new attention mechanism that allowed the NMT model to trace the dependency words related to the current translating words.Our work also indicates that dependency information could help to supervise attention mechanism.Experiment results on WMT 17 Chineseto-English translation task shared training datasets show that our model is effective and perform distinctively on long sentence translation.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under the grant(No.61672138).
文摘The translation quality of neural machine translation(NMT)systems depends largely on the quality of large-scale bilingual parallel corpora available.Research shows that under the condition of limited resources,the performance of NMT is greatly reduced,and a large amount of high-quality bilingual parallel data is needed to train a competitive translation model.However,not all languages have large-scale and high-quality bilingual corpus resources available.In these cases,improving the quality of the corpora has become the main focus to increase the accuracy of the NMT results.This paper proposes a new method to improve the quality of data by using data cleaning,data expansion,and other measures to expand the data at the word and sentence-level,thus improving the richness of the bilingual data.The long short-term memory(LSTM)language model is also used to ensure the smoothness of sentence construction in the process of sentence construction.At the same time,it uses a variety of processing methods to improve the quality of the bilingual data.Experiments using three standard test sets are conducted to validate the proposed method;the most advanced fairseq-transformer NMT system is used in the training.The results show that the proposed method has worked well on improving the translation results.Compared with the state-of-the-art methods,the BLEU value of our method is increased by 2.34 compared with that of the baseline.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61872231,61701297).
文摘Neural Machine Translation(NMT)is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation,overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems.Although NMT based systems have gained their popularity in commercial translation applications,there is still plenty of room for improvement.Being the most popular search algorithm in NMT,beam search is vital to the translation result.However,traditional beam search can produce duplicate or missing translation due to its target sequence selection strategy.Aiming to alleviate this problem,this paper proposed neural machine translation improvements based on a novel beam search evaluation function.And we use reinforcement learning to train a translation evaluation system to select better candidate words for generating translations.In the experiments,we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods.CASIA corpus and the 1,000,000 pairs of bilingual corpora of NiuTrans are used in our experiments.The experiment results prove that the proposed methods can effectively improve the English to Chinese translation quality.
基金This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61872231,61701297).
文摘Neural Machine Translation(NMT)based system is an important technology for translation applications.However,there is plenty of rooms for the improvement of NMT.In the process of NMT,traditional word vector cannot distinguish the same words under different parts of speech(POS).Aiming to alleviate this problem,this paper proposed a new word vector training method based on POS feature.It can efficiently improve the quality of translation by adding POS feature to the training process of word vectors.In the experiments,we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods.The experimental result shows that the proposed method is beneficial to improve the quality of translation from English into Chinese.
文摘This paper compared several methods of machine translation(MT) design, drew lessons from the idea of phrase structure, GPSG, HPSG and Corpus, took words as the core, built a set of word rules, and developed an English Chinese Machine Translation System based on it. The paper also discussed some technical problems on building MT system, and provided an estimation principle for using rules. With this principle the syntax ambiguities in MT system are solved better.
文摘How to select appropriate wolds in a translation is a significant problem in current studies of machine translation, because it directly decides the translation quality. This paper uses an unsupervised corpus-based statisticalmethod to select target word. Based on the concurrence probabilities, all ambiguous words in a sentence are disambiguated at the same time. Because a corpus of limited size cannot cover all the collocation of words, we use an effectivesmoothing method to increase the coverage of the corpus. In ceder to solve the problem in our English-Chinese MT system, we have applied the algorithm to disambiguate senses of verbs, nouns and adjectitves in target language, and theresult shows that the approach is very promising.
基金supported by the Institute for Information&communications Technology Promotion under Grant No.R0101-16-0176the Project of Core Technology Development for Human-Like Self-Taught Learning Based on Symbolic Approach
文摘This paper describes the experiments with Korean-to-Vietnamese statistical machine translation(SMT). The fact that Korean is a morphologically complex language that does not have clear optimal word boundaries causes a major problem of translating into or from Korean. To solve this problem, we present a method to conduct a Korean morphological analysis by using a pre-analyzed partial word-phrase dictionary(PWD).Besides, we build a Korean-Vietnamese parallel corpus for training SMT models by collecting text from multilingual magazines. Then, we apply such a morphology analysis to Korean sentences that are included in the collected parallel corpus as a preprocessing step. The experiment results demonstrate a remarkable improvement of Korean-to-Vietnamese translation quality in term of bi-lingual evaluation understudy(BLEU).
文摘This paper gives the representation of rules, the strategy of rule controlling and the existing problems in English Chinese Machine Translation(MT) named BT863 I. Then it puts forward a method for processing these rules based on the decision tree. With this method, some problems such as rule conflic and rule redundancy occurring in BT863 I have been solved and the efficiency of MT system has been improved greatly. This method also has general meaning in the Rule based expert system.
基金“The 20213rd Demonstration Courses for Thought of Northeastern University(Machine Translation Course)”“The 2021 Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project(Machine Translation/Natural Language Processing Course)”。
文摘Teaching evaluation can be divided into different types,additionally their functions and applicable conditions are different.According to different standards,teaching evaluation can be divided into different types:(1)according to different evaluation functions,it can be divided into pre-evaluation,intermediate evaluation,and post-evaluation;(2)according to different evaluation reference standards,it can be divided into relative evaluation,absolute evaluation,and individual difference evaluation;(3)according to different evaluation and analysis methods,it can be divided into qualitative and quantitative evaluation;(4)according to the different evaluation subjects,it can be divided into self-evaluation and others’evaluation.This paper introduced research work using different types of teaching evaluation in the machine translation course according to different situations.The research results showed that the rational selection of different types of teaching evaluation methods and the combination of these methods can greatly promote teaching.
基金This work was supported by Institute of Information&communications Technology Planning&Evaluation(IITP)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(No.2021-0-00358,AI·Big data based Cyber Security Orchestration and Automated Response Technology Development).
文摘In the field of natural language processing(NLP),the advancement of neural machine translation has paved the way for cross-lingual research.Yet,most studies in NLP have evaluated the proposed language models on well-refined datasets.We investigatewhether amachine translation approach is suitable for multilingual analysis of unrefined datasets,particularly,chat messages in Twitch.In order to address it,we collected the dataset,which included 7,066,854 and 3,365,569 chat messages from English and Korean streams,respectively.We employed several machine learning classifiers and neural networks with two different types of embedding:word-sequence embedding and the final layer of a pre-trained language model.The results of the employed models indicate that the accuracy difference between English,and English to Korean was relatively high,ranging from 3%to 12%.For Korean data(Korean,and Korean to English),it ranged from 0%to 2%.Therefore,the results imply that translation from a low-resource language(e.g.,Korean)into a high-resource language(e.g.,English)shows higher performance,in contrast to vice versa.Several implications and limitations of the presented results are also discussed.For instance,we suggest the feasibility of translation from resource-poor languages for using the tools of resource-rich languages in further analysis.
基金Major Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Province[No.2022YFG0315,2022YFG0174]Sichuan Gas Turbine Research Institute stability support project of China Aero Engine Group Co.,Ltd.[No.GJCZ-2019-71].
文摘When the Transformer proposed by Google in 2017,it was first used for machine translation tasks and achieved the state of the art at that time.Although the current neural machine translation model can generate high quality translation results,there are still mistranslations and omissions in the translation of key information of long sentences.On the other hand,the most important part in traditional translation tasks is the translation of key information.In the translation results,as long as the key information is translated accurately and completely,even if other parts of the results are translated incorrect,the final translation results’quality can still be guaranteed.In order to solve the problem of mistranslation and missed translation effectively,and improve the accuracy and completeness of long sentence translation in machine translation,this paper proposes a key information fused neural machine translation model based on Transformer.The model proposed in this paper extracts the keywords of the source language text separately as the input of the encoder.After the same encoding as the source language text,it is fused with the output of the source language text encoded by the encoder,then the key information is processed and input into the decoder.With incorporating keyword information from the source language sentence,the model’s performance in the task of translating long sentences is very reliable.In order to verify the effectiveness of the method of fusion of key information proposed in this paper,a series of experiments were carried out on the verification set.The experimental results show that the Bilingual Evaluation Understudy(BLEU)score of the model proposed in this paper on theWorkshop on Machine Translation(WMT)2017 test dataset is higher than the BLEU score of Transformer proposed by Google on the WMT2017 test dataset.The experimental results show the advantages of the model proposed in this paper.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No.60803078)National High Technology Research and Development Programs of China (No.2006AA010107, No.2006AA010108)
文摘This paper proposed a method to incorporate syntax-based language models in phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. The syntax-based language model used in this paper is based on link grammar,which is a high lexical formalism. In order to apply language models based on link grammar in phrase-based models,the concept of linked phrases,an extension of the concept of traditional phrases in phrase-based models was brought out. Experiments were conducted and the results showed that the use of syntax-based language models could improve the performance of the phrase-based models greatly.
