Character-based Decoding in Tree-to-Sequence Attention-based Neural Machine Translation

Akiko Eriguchi, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka


Abstract
This paper reports our systems (UT-AKY) submitted in the 3rd Workshop of Asian Translation 2016 (WAT’16) and their results in the English-to-Japanese translation task. Our model is based on the tree-to-sequence Attention-based NMT (ANMT) model proposed by Eriguchi et al. (2016). We submitted two ANMT systems: one with a word-based decoder and the other with a character-based decoder. Experimenting on the English-to-Japanese translation task, we have confirmed that the character-based decoder can cover almost the full vocabulary in the target language and generate translations much faster than the word-based model.
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W16-4617
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Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016)
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December
Year:
2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Toshiaki Nakazawa, Hideya Mino, Chenchen Ding, Isao Goto, Graham Neubig, Sadao Kurohashi, Ir. Hammam Riza, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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WAT
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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175–183
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https://aclanthology.org/W16-4617
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Akiko Eriguchi, Kazuma Hashimoto, and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2016. Character-based Decoding in Tree-to-Sequence Attention-based Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016), pages 175–183, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Character-based Decoding in Tree-to-Sequence Attention-based Neural Machine Translation (Eriguchi et al., WAT 2016)
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