Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report

Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang


Abstract
This paper describes multimodal machine translation systems developed jointly by Oregon State University and Baidu Research for WMT 2018 Shared Task on multimodal translation. In this paper, we introduce a simple approach to incorporate image information by feeding image features to the decoder side. We also explore different sequence level training methods including scheduled sampling and reinforcement learning which lead to substantial improvements. Our systems ensemble several models using different architectures and training methods and achieve the best performance for three subtasks: En-De and En-Cs in task 1 and (En+De+Fr)-Cs task 1B.
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W18-6443
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Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
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October
Year:
2018
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Belgium, Brussels
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WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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632–636
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6443
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6443
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Renjie Zheng, Yilin Yang, Mingbo Ma, and Liang Huang. 2018. Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 632–636, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report (Zheng et al., WMT 2018)
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