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title = "Effective Adversarial Regularization for Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Sato, Motoki and
Suzuki, Jun and
Kiyono, Shun",
editor = "Korhonen, Anna and
Traum, David and
M{\`a}rquez, Llu{\'\i}s",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1020",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1020",
pages = "204--210",
abstract = "A regularization technique based on adversarial perturbation, which was initially developed in the field of image processing, has been successfully applied to text classification tasks and has yielded attractive improvements. We aim to further leverage this promising methodology into more sophisticated and critical neural models in the natural language processing field, i.e., neural machine translation (NMT) models. However, it is not trivial to apply this methodology to such models. Thus, this paper investigates the effectiveness of several possible configurations of applying the adversarial perturbation and reveals that the adversarial regularization technique can significantly and consistently improve the performance of widely used NMT models, such as LSTM-based and Transformer-based models.",
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%T Effective Adversarial Regularization for Neural Machine Translation
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%A Kiyono, Shun
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%Y Traum, David
%Y Màrquez, Lluís
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Markdown (Informal)
[Effective Adversarial Regularization for Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1020) (Sato et al., ACL 2019)
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