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title = "Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora",
author = "Wang, Yining and
Zhao, Yang and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Zong, Chengqing and
Xue, Zhengshan",
editor = "Kondrak, Greg and
Watanabe, Taro",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = nov,
year = "2017",
address = "Taipei, Taiwan",
publisher = "Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/I17-1039/",
pages = "384--393",
abstract = "While neural machine translation (NMT) has become the new paradigm, the parameter optimization requires large-scale parallel data which is scarce in many domains and language pairs. In this paper, we address a new translation scenario in which there only exists monolingual corpora and phrase pairs. We propose a new method towards translation with partially aligned sentence pairs which are derived from the phrase pairs and monolingual corpora. To make full use of the partially aligned corpora, we adapt the conventional NMT training method in two aspects. On one hand, different generation strategies are designed for aligned and unaligned target words. On the other hand, a different objective function is designed to model the partially aligned parts. The experiments demonstrate that our method can achieve a relatively good result in such a translation scenario, and tiny bitexts can boost translation quality to a large extent."
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%T Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora
%A Wang, Yining
%A Zhao, Yang
%A Zhang, Jiajun
%A Zong, Chengqing
%A Xue, Zhengshan
%Y Kondrak, Greg
%Y Watanabe, Taro
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%D 2017
%8 November
%I Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
%C Taipei, Taiwan
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora](https://aclanthology.org/I17-1039/) (Wang et al., IJCNLP 2017)
ACL
- Yining Wang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, and Zhengshan Xue. 2017. Towards Neural Machine Translation with Partially Aligned Corpora. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 384–393, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.