Neural Machine Translation with Source-Side Latent Graph Parsing

Kazuma Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka


Abstract
This paper presents a novel neural machine translation model which jointly learns translation and source-side latent graph representations of sentences. Unlike existing pipelined approaches using syntactic parsers, our end-to-end model learns a latent graph parser as part of the encoder of an attention-based neural machine translation model, and thus the parser is optimized according to the translation objective. In experiments, we first show that our model compares favorably with state-of-the-art sequential and pipelined syntax-based NMT models. We also show that the performance of our model can be further improved by pre-training it with a small amount of treebank annotations. Our final ensemble model significantly outperforms the previous best models on the standard English-to-Japanese translation dataset.
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D17-1012
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Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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125–135
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1012
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1012
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Kazuma Hashimoto and Yoshimasa Tsuruoka. 2017. Neural Machine Translation with Source-Side Latent Graph Parsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 125–135, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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