@inproceedings{zaninello-birch-2020-multiword,
title = "Multiword Expression aware Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Zaninello, Andrea and
Birch, Alexandra",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.471",
pages = "3816--3825",
abstract = "Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a frequently occurring phenomenon found in all natural languages that is of great importance to linguistic theory, natural language processing applications, and machine translation systems. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architectures do not handle these expressions well and previous studies have rarely addressed MWEs in this framework. In this work, we show that annotation and data augmentation, using external linguistic resources, can improve both translation of MWEs that occur in the source, and the generation of MWEs on the target, and increase performance by up to 5.09 BLEU points on MWE test sets. We also devise a MWE score to specifically assess the quality of MWE translation which agrees with human evaluation. We make available the MWE score implementation {--} along with MWE-annotated training sets and corpus-based lists of MWEs {--} for reproduction and extension.",
language = "English",
ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Multiword Expression aware Neural Machine Translation
%A Zaninello, Andrea
%A Birch, Alexandra
%S Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
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%X Multiword Expressions (MWEs) are a frequently occurring phenomenon found in all natural languages that is of great importance to linguistic theory, natural language processing applications, and machine translation systems. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architectures do not handle these expressions well and previous studies have rarely addressed MWEs in this framework. In this work, we show that annotation and data augmentation, using external linguistic resources, can improve both translation of MWEs that occur in the source, and the generation of MWEs on the target, and increase performance by up to 5.09 BLEU points on MWE test sets. We also devise a MWE score to specifically assess the quality of MWE translation which agrees with human evaluation. We make available the MWE score implementation – along with MWE-annotated training sets and corpus-based lists of MWEs – for reproduction and extension.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.471
%P 3816-3825
Markdown (Informal)
[Multiword Expression aware Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.471) (Zaninello & Birch, LREC 2020)
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