Deconvolution-Based Global Decoding for Neural Machine Translation

Junyang Lin, Xu Sun, Xuancheng Ren, Shuming Ma, Jinsong Su, Qi Su


Abstract
A great proportion of sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) adopt Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate translation word by word following a sequential order. As the studies of linguistics have proved that language is not linear word sequence but sequence of complex structure, translation at each step should be conditioned on the whole target-side context. To tackle the problem, we propose a new NMT model that decodes the sequence with the guidance of its structural prediction of the context of the target sequence. Our model generates translation based on the structural prediction of the target-side context so that the translation can be freed from the bind of sequential order. Experimental results demonstrate that our model is more competitive compared with the state-of-the-art methods, and the analysis reflects that our model is also robust to translating sentences of different lengths and it also reduces repetition with the instruction from the target-side context for decoding.
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C18-1276
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3260–3271
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Junyang Lin, Xu Sun, Xuancheng Ren, Shuming Ma, Jinsong Su, and Qi Su. 2018. Deconvolution-Based Global Decoding for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3260–3271, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Code
 lancopku/DeconvDec