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title = "Modeling Coherence for Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic and Topic Caches",
author = "Kuang, Shaohui and
Xiong, Deyi and
Luo, Weihua and
Zhou, Guodong",
editor = "Bender, Emily M. and
Derczynski, Leon and
Isabelle, Pierre",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = aug,
year = "2018",
address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/C18-1050",
pages = "596--606",
abstract = "Sentences in a well-formed text are connected to each other via various links to form the cohesive structure of the text. Current neural machine translation (NMT) systems translate a text in a conventional sentence-by-sentence fashion, ignoring such cross-sentence links and dependencies. This may lead to generate an incoherent target text for a coherent source text. In order to handle this issue, we propose a cache-based approach to modeling coherence for neural machine translation by capturing contextual information either from recently translated sentences or the entire document. Particularly, we explore two types of caches: a dynamic cache, which stores words from the best translation hypotheses of preceding sentences, and a topic cache, which maintains a set of target-side topical words that are semantically related to the document to be translated. On this basis, we build a new layer to score target words in these two caches with a cache-based neural model. Here the estimated probabilities from the cache-based neural model are combined with NMT probabilities into the final word prediction probabilities via a gating mechanism. Finally, the proposed cache-based neural model is trained jointly with NMT system in an end-to-end manner. Experiments and analysis presented in this paper demonstrate that the proposed cache-based model achieves substantial improvements over several state-of-the-art SMT and NMT baselines.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Modeling Coherence for Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic and Topic Caches
%A Kuang, Shaohui
%A Xiong, Deyi
%A Luo, Weihua
%A Zhou, Guodong
%Y Bender, Emily M.
%Y Derczynski, Leon
%Y Isabelle, Pierre
%S Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2018
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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%X Sentences in a well-formed text are connected to each other via various links to form the cohesive structure of the text. Current neural machine translation (NMT) systems translate a text in a conventional sentence-by-sentence fashion, ignoring such cross-sentence links and dependencies. This may lead to generate an incoherent target text for a coherent source text. In order to handle this issue, we propose a cache-based approach to modeling coherence for neural machine translation by capturing contextual information either from recently translated sentences or the entire document. Particularly, we explore two types of caches: a dynamic cache, which stores words from the best translation hypotheses of preceding sentences, and a topic cache, which maintains a set of target-side topical words that are semantically related to the document to be translated. On this basis, we build a new layer to score target words in these two caches with a cache-based neural model. Here the estimated probabilities from the cache-based neural model are combined with NMT probabilities into the final word prediction probabilities via a gating mechanism. Finally, the proposed cache-based neural model is trained jointly with NMT system in an end-to-end manner. Experiments and analysis presented in this paper demonstrate that the proposed cache-based model achieves substantial improvements over several state-of-the-art SMT and NMT baselines.
%U https://aclanthology.org/C18-1050
%P 596-606
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[Modeling Coherence for Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic and Topic Caches](https://aclanthology.org/C18-1050) (Kuang et al., COLING 2018)
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