Visual cues and error correction for translation robustness
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Author(s)
Li, Zhenhao
Rei, Marek
Specia, Lucia
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Neural Machine Translation models are sensitive to noise in the input texts, such as misspelled words and ungrammatical constructions. Existing robustness techniques generally fail when faced with unseen types of noise and their performance degrades on clean texts. In this paper, we focus on three types of realistic noise that are commonly generated by humans and introduce the idea of visual context to improve translation robustness for noisy texts. In addition, we describe a novel error correction training regime that can be used as an auxiliary task to further improve translation robustness. Experiments on English-French and English-German translation show that both multimodal and error correction components improve model robustness to noisy texts, while still retaining translation quality on clean texts.
Date Issued
2021-11
Date Acceptance
2021-11-07
Citation
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021
ISBN
978-1-955917-10-0
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Journal / Book Title
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
Copyright Statement
©2021 Association for Computational Linguistics
Materials published in or after 2016 are licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Materials published in or after 2016 are licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.271
Source
EMNLP 2021
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-11-07
Finish Date
2021-11-11
Coverage Spatial
Barceló Bávaro Convention Centre, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Date Publish Online
2021-11