Leveraging Latent Topic Information to Improve Product Machine Translation

Bryan Zhang, Stephan Walter, Amita Misra, Liling Tan


Abstract
Meeting the expectations of e-commerce customers involves offering a seamless online shopping experience in their preferred language. To achieve this, modern e-commerce platforms rely on machine translation systems to provide multilingual product information on a large scale. However, maintaining high-quality machine translation that can keep up with the ever-expanding volume of product data remains an open challenge for industrial machine translation systems. In this context, topical clustering emerges as a valuable approach, leveraging latent signals and interpretable textual patterns to potentially enhance translation quality and facilitate industry-scale translation data discovery. This paper proposes two innovative methods: topic-based data selection and topic-signal augmentation, both utilizing latent topic clusters to improve the quality of machine translation in e-commerce. Furthermore, we present a data discovery workflow that utilizes topic clusters to effectively manage the growing multilingual product catalogs, addressing the challenges posed by their expansion.
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2023.mtsummit-users.10
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIX, Vol. 2: Users Track
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September
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2023
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Macau SAR, China
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Masaru Yamada, Felix do Carmo
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MTSummit
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Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation
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109–118
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.mtsummit-users.10
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Bryan Zhang, Stephan Walter, Amita Misra, and Liling Tan. 2023. Leveraging Latent Topic Information to Improve Product Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIX, Vol. 2: Users Track, pages 109–118, Macau SAR, China. Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation.
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