Bram Bulte


2019

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Neural Fuzzy Repair: Integrating Fuzzy Matches into Neural Machine Translation
Bram Bulte | Arda Tezcan
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

We present a simple yet powerful data augmentation method for boosting Neural Machine Translation (NMT) performance by leveraging information retrieved from a Translation Memory (TM). We propose and test two methods for augmenting NMT training data with fuzzy TM matches. Tests on the DGT-TM data set for two language pairs show consistent and substantial improvements over a range of baseline systems. The results suggest that this method is promising for any translation environment in which a sizeable TM is available and a certain amount of repetition across translations is to be expected, especially considering its ease of implementation.
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