Marc A Tessier


2024

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Some Tradeoffs in Continual Learning for Parliamentary Neural Machine Translation Systems
Rebecca Knowles | Samuel Larkin | Michel Simard | Marc A Tessier | Gabriel Bernier-Colborne | Cyril Goutte | Chi-kiu Lo
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 1: Research Track)

In long-term translation projects, like Parliamentary text, there is a desire to build machine translation systems that can adapt to changes over time. We implement and examine a simple approach to continual learning for neural machine translation, exploring tradeoffs between consistency, the model’s ability to learn from incoming data, and the time a client would need to wait to obtain a newly trained translation system.