Dynamic-FACT: A Dynamic Framework for Adaptive Context-Aware Translation

Chen Linqing, Wang Weilei


Abstract
“Document-level neural machine translation (NMT) has garnered considerable attention sincethe emergence of various context-aware NMT models. However, these static NMT models aretrained on fixed parallel datasets, thus lacking awareness of the target document during infer-ence. In order to alleviate this limitation, we propose a dynamic adapter-translator frameworkfor context-aware NMT, which adapts the trained NMT model to the input document prior totranslation. Specifically, the document adapter reconstructs the scrambled portion of the originaldocument from a deliberately corrupted version, thereby reducing the performance disparity be-tween training and inference. To achieve this, we employ an adaptation process in both the train-ing and inference stages. Our experimental results on document-level translation benchmarksdemonstrate significant enhancements in translation performance, underscoring the necessity ofdynamic adaptation for context-aware translation and the efficacy of our methodologies. Introduction”
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2023.ccl-1.57
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Proceedings of the 22nd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
Year:
2023
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Harbin, China
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Maosong Sun, Bing Qin, Xipeng Qiu, Jing Jiang, Xianpei Han
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CCL
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Chinese Information Processing Society of China
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665–676
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English
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Chen Linqing and Wang Weilei. 2023. Dynamic-FACT: A Dynamic Framework for Adaptive Context-Aware Translation. In Proceedings of the 22nd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 665–676, Harbin, China. Chinese Information Processing Society of China.
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