Incorporating Target Fuzzy Matches into Neural Fuzzy Repair

Tommi Nieminen, Jörg Tiedemann, Sami Virpioja


Abstract
Neural fuzzy repair (NFR) is a simple implementation of retrieval-augmented translation (RAT), based on data augmentation. In NFR, a translation database is searched for translation examples where the source sentence is similar to the sentence being translated, and the target side of the example is concatenated with the source sentences. We experiment with introducing retrieval that is based on target similarity to NFR during training. The results of our experiments confirm that including target similarity matches during training supplements source similarity matches and leads to better translations at translation time.
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2025.nodalida-1.44
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Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
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2025
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Tallinn, Estonia
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Richard Johansson, Sara Stymne
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Tommi Nieminen, Jörg Tiedemann, and Sami Virpioja. 2025. Incorporating Target Fuzzy Matches into Neural Fuzzy Repair. In Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025), pages 408–418, Tallinn, Estonia. University of Tartu Library.
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