End-to-End Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT2020 Using Modality Agnostic Meta-Learning

Hou Jeung Han, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu, Beomseok Lee, Sangha Kim


Abstract
In this paper, we describe end-to-end simultaneous speech-to-text and text-to-text translation systems submitted to IWSLT2020 online translation challenge. The systems are built by adding wait-k and meta-learning approaches to the Transformer architecture. The systems are evaluated on different latency regimes. The simultaneous text-to-text translation achieved a BLEU score of 26.38 compared to the competition baseline score of 14.17 on the low latency regime (Average latency ≤ 3). The simultaneous speech-to-text system improves the BLEU score by 7.7 points over the competition baseline for the low latency regime (Average Latency ≤ 1000).
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2020.iwslt-1.5
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
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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62–68
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.iwslt-1.5
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.iwslt-1.5
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Hou Jeung Han, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu, Beomseok Lee, and Sangha Kim. 2020. End-to-End Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT2020 Using Modality Agnostic Meta-Learning. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, pages 62–68, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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End-to-End Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT2020 Using Modality Agnostic Meta-Learning (Han et al., IWSLT 2020)
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