Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation

Wei Wang, Ye Tian, Jiquan Ngiam, Yinfei Yang, Isaac Caswell, Zarana Parekh


Abstract
Most data selection research in machine translation focuses on improving a single domain. We perform data selection for multiple domains at once. This is achieved by carefully introducing instance-level domain-relevance features and automatically constructing a training curriculum to gradually concentrate on multi-domain relevant and noise-reduced data batches. Both the choice of features and the use of curriculum are crucial for balancing and improving all domains, including out-of-domain. In large-scale experiments, the multi-domain curriculum simultaneously reaches or outperforms the individual performance and brings solid gains over no-curriculum training.
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2020.acl-main.689
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
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2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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7711–7723
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.689
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.689
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Wei Wang, Ye Tian, Jiquan Ngiam, Yinfei Yang, Isaac Caswell, and Zarana Parekh. 2020. Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 7711–7723, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation (Wang et al., ACL 2020)
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