Interactive Post-Editing for Verbosity Controlled Translation

Prabhakar Gupta, Anil Nelakanti, Grant M. Berry, Abhishek Sharma


Abstract
We explore Interactive Post-Editing (IPE) models for human-in-loop translation to help correct translation errors and rephrase it with a desired style variation. We specifically study verbosity for style variations and build on top of multi-source transformers that can read source and hypothesis to improve the latter with user inputs. Token-level interaction inputs for error corrections and length interaction inputs for verbosity control are used by the model to generate a suitable translation. We report BERTScore to evaluate semantic quality with other relevant metrics for translations from English to German, French and Spanish languages. Our model achieves superior BERTScore over state-of-the-art machine translation models while maintaining the desired token-level and verbosity preference.
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2022.coling-1.454
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
Year:
2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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5119–5128
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.454
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Prabhakar Gupta, Anil Nelakanti, Grant M. Berry, and Abhishek Sharma. 2022. Interactive Post-Editing for Verbosity Controlled Translation. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5119–5128, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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