Disambiguated Lexically Constrained Neural Machine Translation

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Abstract

Lexically constrained neural machine translation (LCNMT), which controls the translation generation with pre-specified constraints, is important in many practical applications. Current approaches to LCNMT typically assume that the pre-specified lexical constraints are contextually appropriate. This assumption limits their application to real-world scenarios where a source lexicon may have multiple target constraints, and disambiguation is needed to select the most suitable one. In this paper, we propose disambiguated LCNMT (D-LCNMT) to solve the problem. D-LCNMT is a robust and effective two-stage framework that disambiguates the constraints based on contexts at first, then integrates the disambiguated constraints into LCNMT. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms strong baselines including existing data augmentation based approaches on benchmark datasets, and comprehensive experiments in scenarios where a source lexicon corresponds to multiple target constraints demonstrate the constraint disambiguation superiority of our approach.

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Zhang, J., Xiao, N., Wang, K., Dong, C., Duan, X., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, M. (2023). Disambiguated Lexically Constrained Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 10583–10596). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.673

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