Dynamic Context Selection for Document-level Neural Machine Translation via Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04314v1
• Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 01:05:32 GMT
• Title: Dynamic Context Selection for Document-level Neural Machine Translation via Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Xiaomian Kang, Yang Zhao, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong
• Abstract summary: We propose an effective approach to select dynamic context for document-level translation. A novel reward is proposed to encourage the selection and utilization of dynamic context sentences. Experiments demonstrate that our approach can select adaptive context sentences for different source sentences.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Document-level neural machine translation has yielded attractive improvements. However, majority of existing methods roughly use all context sentences in a fixed scope. They neglect the fact that different source sentences need different sizes of context. To address this problem, we propose an effective approach to select dynamic context so that the document-level translation model can utilize the more useful selected context sentences to produce better translations. Specifically, we introduce a selection module that is independent of the translation module to score each candidate context sentence. Then, we propose two strategies to explicitly select a variable number of context sentences and feed them into the translation module. We train the two modules end-to-end via reinforcement learning. A novel reward is proposed to encourage the selection and utilization of dynamic context sentences. Experiments demonstrate that our approach can select adaptive context sentences for different source sentences, and significantly improves the performance of document-level translation methods.

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