Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network

Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi


Abstract
Video-guided machine translation, as one type of multimodal machine translations, aims to engage video contents as auxiliary information to address the word sense ambiguity problem in machine translation. Previous studies only use features from pretrained action detection models as motion representations of the video to solve the verb sense ambiguity, leaving the noun sense ambiguity a problem. To address this problem, we propose a video-guided machine translation system by using both spatial and motion representations in videos. For spatial features, we propose a hierarchical attention network to model the spatial information from object-level to video-level. Experiments on the VATEX dataset show that our system achieves 35.86 BLEU-4 score, which is 0.51 score higher than the single model of the SOTA method.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-srw.9
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Jad Kabbara, Haitao Lin, Amandalynne Paullada, Jannis Vamvas
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
87–92
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-srw.9
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-srw.9
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Cite (ACL):
Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, and Sadao Kurohashi. 2021. Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: Student Research Workshop, pages 87–92, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network (Gu et al., ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-srw.9.pdf
Data
VATEX