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    <abstract>Current Machine Translation (MT) models still struggle with more challenging input, such as noisy data and tail-end words and phrases. Several works have addressed this robustness issue by identifying specific categories of noise and variation then tuning models to perform better on them. An important yet under-studied category involves minor variations in nuance (non-typos) that preserve meaning w.r.t. the target language. We introduce and formalize this category as Natural Asemantic Variation (NAV) and investigate it in the context of MT robustness. We find that existing MT models fail when presented with NAV data, but we demonstrate strategies to improve performance on NAV by fine-tuning them with human-generated variations. We also show that NAV robustness can be transferred across languages and find that synthetic perturbations can achieve some but not all of the benefits of organic NAV data.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Machine Translation Robustness to Natural Asemantic Variation
%A Bremerman, Jacob
%A Ren, Xiang
%A May, Jonathan
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F bremerman-etal-2022-machine
%X Current Machine Translation (MT) models still struggle with more challenging input, such as noisy data and tail-end words and phrases. Several works have addressed this robustness issue by identifying specific categories of noise and variation then tuning models to perform better on them. An important yet under-studied category involves minor variations in nuance (non-typos) that preserve meaning w.r.t. the target language. We introduce and formalize this category as Natural Asemantic Variation (NAV) and investigate it in the context of MT robustness. We find that existing MT models fail when presented with NAV data, but we demonstrate strategies to improve performance on NAV by fine-tuning them with human-generated variations. We also show that NAV robustness can be transferred across languages and find that synthetic perturbations can achieve some but not all of the benefits of organic NAV data.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.230
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.230
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.230
%P 3517-3532

Markdown (Informal)

[Machine Translation Robustness to Natural Asemantic Variation](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.230) (Bremerman et al., EMNLP 2022)

• Machine Translation Robustness to Natural Asemantic Variation (Bremerman et al., EMNLP 2022)

ACL

• Jacob Bremerman, Xiang Ren, and Jonathan May. 2022. Machine Translation Robustness to Natural Asemantic Variation. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3517–3532, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.