Joint Translation and Unit Conversion for End-to-end Localization

Georgiana Dinu, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico, Stanislas Lauly, Yaser Al-Onaizan


Abstract
A variety of natural language tasks require processing of textual data which contains a mix of natural language and formal languages such as mathematical expressions. In this paper, we take unit conversions as an example and propose a data augmentation technique which lead to models learning both translation and conversion tasks as well as how to adequately switch between them for end-to-end localization.
Anthology ID:
2020.iwslt-1.32
Volume:
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation
Month:
July
Year:
2020
Address:
Online
Editors:
Marcello Federico, Alex Waibel, Kevin Knight, Satoshi Nakamura, Hermann Ney, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Dekai Wu, Joseph Mariani, Francois Yvon
Venue:
IWSLT
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SIGSLT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
265–271
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.iwslt-1.32
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.iwslt-1.32
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Georgiana Dinu, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico, Stanislas Lauly, and Yaser Al-Onaizan. 2020. Joint Translation and Unit Conversion for End-to-end Localization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, pages 265–271, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Joint Translation and Unit Conversion for End-to-end Localization (Dinu et al., IWSLT 2020)
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