Abstract
This work introduces a machine translation task where the output is aimed at audiences of different levels of target language proficiency. We collect a high quality dataset of news articles available in English and Spanish, written for diverse grade levels and propose a method to align segments across comparable bilingual articles. The resulting dataset makes it possible to train multi-task sequence to sequence models that can translate and simplify text jointly. We show that these multi-task models outperform pipeline approaches that translate and simplify text independently.- Anthology ID:
- D19-1166
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1549–1564
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-1166
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-1166
- Cite (ACL):
- Sweta Agrawal and Marine Carpuat. 2019. Controlling Text Complexity in Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 1549–1564, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Controlling Text Complexity in Neural Machine Translation (Agrawal & Carpuat, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/D19-1166.pdf
- Code
- sweta20/ComplexityControlledMT
- Data
- Newsela