Abstract
Simultaneous speech translation aims to maintain translation quality while minimizing the delay between reading input and incrementally producing the output. We propose a new general-purpose prediction action which predicts future words in the input to improve quality and minimize delay in simultaneous translation. We train this agent using reinforcement learning with a novel reward function. Our agent with prediction has better translation quality and less delay compared to an agent-based simultaneous translation system without prediction.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1337
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3022–3027
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1337
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1337
- Cite (ACL):
- Ashkan Alinejad, Maryam Siahbani, and Anoop Sarkar. 2018. Prediction Improves Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 3022–3027, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Prediction Improves Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation (Alinejad et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/D18-1337.pdf