Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation

Philipp Koehn, Rebecca Knowles


Abstract
We explore six challenges for neural machine translation: domain mismatch, amount of training data, rare words, long sentences, word alignment, and beam search. We show both deficiencies and improvements over the quality of phrase-based statistical machine translation.
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W17-3204
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver
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NGT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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28–39
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-3204
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-3204
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Philipp Koehn and Rebecca Knowles. 2017. Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation, pages 28–39, Vancouver. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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