Neural Lattice Search for Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation
Huda Khayrallah, Gaurav Kumar, Kevin Duh, Matt Post, Philipp Koehn
Abstract
Domain adaptation is a major challenge for neural machine translation (NMT). Given unknown words or new domains, NMT systems tend to generate fluent translations at the expense of adequacy. We present a stack-based lattice search algorithm for NMT and show that constraining its search space with lattices generated by phrase-based machine translation (PBMT) improves robustness. We report consistent BLEU score gains across four diverse domain adaptation tasks involving medical, IT, Koran, or subtitles texts.- Anthology ID:
- I17-2004
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Editors:
- Greg Kondrak, Taro Watanabe
- Venue:
- IJCNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
- Note:
- Pages:
- 20–25
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/I17-2004
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Huda Khayrallah, Gaurav Kumar, Kevin Duh, Matt Post, and Philipp Koehn. 2017. Neural Lattice Search for Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 20–25, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
- Cite (Informal):
- Neural Lattice Search for Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation (Khayrallah et al., IJCNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/I17-2004.pdf