Towards contextual adaptation for any-text translation

Li Gong, Aurélien Max, François Yvon


Abstract
Adaptation for Machine Translation has been studied in a variety of ways, using an ideal scenario where the training data can be split into ”out-of-domain” and ”in-domain” corpora, on which the adaptation is based. In this paper, we consider a more realistic setting which does not assume the availability of any kind of ”in-domain” data, hence the name ”any-text translation”. In this context, we present a new approach to contextually adapt a translation model onthe-fly, and present several experimental results where this approach outperforms conventionaly trained baselines. We also present a document-level contrastive evaluation whose results can be easily interpreted, even by non-specialists.
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2012.iwslt-papers.20
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Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers
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December 6-7
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2012
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Hong Kong, Table of contents
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IWSLT
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SIGSLT
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292–299
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Li Gong, Aurélien Max, and François Yvon. 2012. Towards contextual adaptation for any-text translation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers, pages 292–299, Hong Kong, Table of contents.
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