@inproceedings{xue-etal-2020-robust,
    title = "Robust Neural Machine Translation with {ASR} Errors",
    author = "Xue, Haiyang  and
      Feng, Yang  and
      Gu, Shuhao  and
      Chen, Wei",
    editor = "Wu, Hua  and
      Cherry, Colin  and
      Huang, Liang  and
      He, Zhongjun  and
      Liberman, Mark  and
      Cross, James  and
      Liu, Yang",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Automatic Simultaneous Translation",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Seattle, Washington",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.autosimtrans-1.3",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.autosimtrans-1.3",
    pages = "15--23",
    abstract = "In many practical applications, neural machine translation systems have to deal with the input from automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems which may contain a certain number of errors. This leads to two problems which degrade translation performance. One is the discrepancy between the training and testing data and the other is the translation error caused by the input errors may ruin the whole translation. In this paper, we propose a method to handle the two problems so as to generate robust translation to ASR errors. First, we simulate ASR errors in the training data so that the data distribution in the training and test is consistent. Second, we focus on ASR errors on homophone words and words with similar pronunciation and make use of their pronunciation information to help the translation model to recover from the input errors. Experiments on two Chinese-English data sets show that our method is more robust to input errors and can outperform the strong Transformer baseline significantly.",
}