Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations

Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins, Gholamreza Haffari


Abstract
Recent works in neural machine translation have begun to explore document translation. However, translating online multi-speaker conversations is still an open problem. In this work, we propose the task of translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations, and explore neural architectures which exploit both source and target-side conversation histories for this task. To initiate an evaluation for this task, we introduce datasets extracted from Europarl v7 and OpenSubtitles2016. Our experiments on four language-pairs confirm the significance of leveraging conversation history, both in terms of BLEU and manual evaluation.
Anthology ID:
W18-6311
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
101–112
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6311
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6311
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Cite (ACL):
Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins, and Gholamreza Haffari. 2018. Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers, pages 101–112, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations (Maruf et al., WMT 2018)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/dois-2013-emnlp/W18-6311.pdf
Code
 sameenmaruf/Bi-MSMT
Data
OpenSubtitles