Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation

Elior Sulem; Omri Abend; Ari Rappoport

Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation

Elior Sulem
, Omri Abend
, Ari Rappoport

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Abstract

Building on recent advances in semantic parsing and text simplification, we investigate the use of semantic splitting of the source sentence as preprocessing for machine translation. We experiment with a Transformer model and evaluate using large-scale crowd-sourcing experiments. Results show a significant increase in fluency on long sentences on an English-to-French setting with a training corpus of 5M sentence pairs, while retaining comparable adequacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	COLING 2020 - SEM 2020
Subtitle of host publication	9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference
Editors	Iryna Gurevych, Marianna Apidianaki, Manaal Faruqui
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	50-57
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781952148323
State	Published - 2020
Event	9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, SEM 2020 - Hybrid, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 12 Dec 2020 → 13 Dec 2020

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Name	COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference	9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, SEM 2020
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Hybrid, Barcelona
Period	12/12/20 → 13/12/20

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Sulem, E., Abend, O., & Rappoport, A. (2020). Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation. In I. Gurevych, M. Apidianaki, & M. Faruqui (Eds.), COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 50-57). (COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Sulem, Elior ; Abend, Omri ; Rappoport, Ari. / Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation. COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference. editor / Iryna Gurevych ; Marianna Apidianaki ; Manaal Faruqui. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. pp. 50-57 (COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Sulem, E, Abend, O & Rappoport, A 2020, Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation. in I Gurevych, M Apidianaki & M Faruqui (eds), COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference. COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 50-57, 9th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, SEM 2020, Hybrid, Barcelona, Spain, 12/12/20.

Semantic Structural Decomposition for Neural Machine Translation. / Sulem, Elior; Abend, Omri ; Rappoport, Ari.
COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference. ed. / Iryna Gurevych; Marianna Apidianaki; Manaal Faruqui. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. p. 50-57 (COLING 2020 - SEM 2020: 9th Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the Conference).

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