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title = "Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Cheng, Yong and
Tu, Zhaopeng and
Meng, Fandong and
Zhai, Junjie and
Liu, Yang",
editor = "Gurevych, Iryna and
Miyao, Yusuke",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2018",
address = "Melbourne, Australia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P18-1163",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P18-1163",
pages = "1756--1766",
abstract = "Small perturbations in the input can severely distort intermediate representations and thus impact translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT) models. In this paper, we propose to improve the robustness of NMT models with adversarial stability training. The basic idea is to make both the encoder and decoder in NMT models robust against input perturbations by enabling them to behave similarly for the original input and its perturbed counterpart. Experimental results on Chinese-English, English-German and English-French translation tasks show that our approaches can not only achieve significant improvements over strong NMT systems but also improve the robustness of NMT models.",
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%T Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation
%A Cheng, Yong
%A Tu, Zhaopeng
%A Meng, Fandong
%A Zhai, Junjie
%A Liu, Yang
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%Y Miyao, Yusuke
%S Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2018
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Melbourne, Australia
%F cheng-etal-2018-towards
%X Small perturbations in the input can severely distort intermediate representations and thus impact translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT) models. In this paper, we propose to improve the robustness of NMT models with adversarial stability training. The basic idea is to make both the encoder and decoder in NMT models robust against input perturbations by enabling them to behave similarly for the original input and its perturbed counterpart. Experimental results on Chinese-English, English-German and English-French translation tasks show that our approaches can not only achieve significant improvements over strong NMT systems but also improve the robustness of NMT models.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1163) (Cheng et al., ACL 2018)
ACL
- Yong Cheng, Zhaopeng Tu, Fandong Meng, Junjie Zhai, and Yang Liu. 2018. Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1756–1766, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.