Toward Understanding Most of the Context in Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

Abstract

Considerable research has been conducted to obtain translations that reflect contextual information in documents and simultaneous interpretations. Most of the existing studies use concatenation data which merge previous and current sentences for training translation models. Although this corpus improves the performance of the model, ignoring the contextual correlation between the sentences can disturb translation performance. In this study, we introduce a simple and effective method to capture the contextual correlation of the sentence at the document level of the current sentence, thereby learning an effective contextual representation. In addition, the proposed model structure is applied to a separate residual connection network to minimize the loss of the beneficial influence of incorporating the context. The experimental results show that our methods improve the translation performance in comparison with the state-of-the-art baseline of the Transformer in various translation tasks and two benchmark machine translation tasks.