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title = "Lexical Micro-adaptation for Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Xu, Jitao and
Crego, Josep and
Senellart, Jean",
editor = {Niehues, Jan and
Cattoni, Rolando and
St{\"u}ker, Sebastian and
Negri, Matteo and
Turchi, Marco and
Ha, Thanh-Le and
Salesky, Elizabeth and
Sanabria, Ramon and
Barrault, Loic and
Specia, Lucia and
Federico, Marcello},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation",
month = nov # " 2-3",
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2019.iwslt-1.27",
abstract = "This work is inspired by a typical machine translation industry scenario in which translators make use of in-domain data for facilitating translation of similar or repeating sentences. We introduce a generic framework applied at inference in which a subset of segment pairs are first extracted from training data according to their similarity to the input sentences. These segments are then used to dynamically update the parameters of a generic NMT network, thus performing a lexical micro-adaptation. Our approach demonstrates strong adaptation performance to new and existing datasets including pseudo in-domain data. We evaluate our approach on a heterogeneous English-French training dataset showing accuracy gains on all evaluated domains when compared to strong adaptation baselines.",
}
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Lexical Micro-adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
%A Xu, Jitao
%A Crego, Josep
%A Senellart, Jean
%Y Niehues, Jan
%Y Cattoni, Rolando
%Y Stüker, Sebastian
%Y Negri, Matteo
%Y Turchi, Marco
%Y Ha, Thanh-Le
%Y Salesky, Elizabeth
%Y Sanabria, Ramon
%Y Barrault, Loic
%Y Specia, Lucia
%Y Federico, Marcello
%S Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
%D 2019
%8 nov 2 3
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong
%F xu-etal-2019-lexical
%X This work is inspired by a typical machine translation industry scenario in which translators make use of in-domain data for facilitating translation of similar or repeating sentences. We introduce a generic framework applied at inference in which a subset of segment pairs are first extracted from training data according to their similarity to the input sentences. These segments are then used to dynamically update the parameters of a generic NMT network, thus performing a lexical micro-adaptation. Our approach demonstrates strong adaptation performance to new and existing datasets including pseudo in-domain data. We evaluate our approach on a heterogeneous English-French training dataset showing accuracy gains on all evaluated domains when compared to strong adaptation baselines.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2019.iwslt-1.27
Markdown (Informal)
[Lexical Micro-adaptation for Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2019.iwslt-1.27) (Xu et al., IWSLT 2019)
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