Neural fuzzy repair : integrating fuzzy matches into neural machine translation

Publication type
P1
Publication status
Published
Authors
Bulté, B., & Tezcan, A.
Series
57TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2019)
Pagination
1800-1809
Conference
57th Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL) (Florence, Italy)
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Abstract

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.