Bi-Decoder Augmented Network for Neural Machine Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04586v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:05:14 GMT
• Title: Bi-Decoder Augmented Network for Neural Machine Translation
• Authors: Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Bi-Decoder Augmented Network (BiDAN) for the neural machine translation task. Since each decoder transforms the representations of the input text into its corresponding language, jointly training with two target ends can make the shared encoder has the potential to produce a language-independent semantic space.
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• Abstract: Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become a popular technology in recent years, and the encoder-decoder framework is the mainstream among all the methods. It's obvious that the quality of the semantic representations from encoding is very crucial and can significantly affect the performance of the model. However, existing unidirectional source-to-target architectures may hardly produce a language-independent representation of the text because they rely heavily on the specific relations of the given language pairs. To alleviate this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel Bi-Decoder Augmented Network (BiDAN) for the neural machine translation task. Besides the original decoder which generates the target language sequence, we add an auxiliary decoder to generate back the source language sequence at the training time. Since each decoder transforms the representations of the input text into its corresponding language, jointly training with two target ends can make the shared encoder has the potential to produce a language-independent semantic space. We conduct extensive experiments on several NMT benchmark datasets and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.

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