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title = "Using Semantic Role Labeling to Improve Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Rapp, Reinhard",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.329",
pages = "3079--3083",
abstract = "Despite impressive progress in machine translation in recent years, it has occasionally been argued that current systems are still mainly based on pattern recognition and that further progress may be possible by using text understanding techniques, thereby e.g. looking at semantics of the type {``}Who is doing what to whom?{''}. In the current research we aim to take a small step into this direction. Assuming that semantic role labeling (SRL) grasps some of the relevant semantics, we automatically annotate the source language side of a standard parallel corpus, namely Europarl, with semantic roles. We then train a neural machine translation (NMT) system using the annotated corpus on the source language side, and the original unannotated corpus on the target language side. New text to be translated is first annotated by the same SRL system and then fed into the translation system. We compare the results to those of a baseline NMT system trained with unannotated text on both sides and find that the SRL-based system yields small improvements in terms of BLEU scores for each of the four language pairs under investigation, involving English, French, German, Greek and Spanish.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Using Semantic Role Labeling to Improve Neural Machine Translation
%A Rapp, Reinhard
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Blache, Philippe
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Cieri, Christopher
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Isahara, Hitoshi
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Hélène
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2022
%8 June
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%F rapp-2022-using
%X Despite impressive progress in machine translation in recent years, it has occasionally been argued that current systems are still mainly based on pattern recognition and that further progress may be possible by using text understanding techniques, thereby e.g. looking at semantics of the type “Who is doing what to whom?”. In the current research we aim to take a small step into this direction. Assuming that semantic role labeling (SRL) grasps some of the relevant semantics, we automatically annotate the source language side of a standard parallel corpus, namely Europarl, with semantic roles. We then train a neural machine translation (NMT) system using the annotated corpus on the source language side, and the original unannotated corpus on the target language side. New text to be translated is first annotated by the same SRL system and then fed into the translation system. We compare the results to those of a baseline NMT system trained with unannotated text on both sides and find that the SRL-based system yields small improvements in terms of BLEU scores for each of the four language pairs under investigation, involving English, French, German, Greek and Spanish.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.329
%P 3079-3083
Markdown (Informal)
[Using Semantic Role Labeling to Improve Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.329) (Rapp, LREC 2022)
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