Linguistically-driven Multi-task Pre-training for Low-resource Neural Machine Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08070v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:10:08 GMT
• Title: Linguistically-driven Multi-task Pre-training for Low-resource Neural Machine Translation
• Authors: Zhuoyuan Mao, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi
• Abstract summary: We propose Japanese-specific sequence to sequence (JASS) for language pairs involving Japanese as the source or target language, and English-specific sequence to sequence (ENSS) for language pairs involving English. JASS focuses on masking and reordering Japanese linguistic units known as bunsetsu, whereas ENSS is proposed based on phrase structure masking and reordering tasks.
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• Abstract: In the present study, we propose novel sequence-to-sequence pre-training objectives for low-resource machine translation (NMT): Japanese-specific sequence to sequence (JASS) for language pairs involving Japanese as the source or target language, and English-specific sequence to sequence (ENSS) for language pairs involving English. JASS focuses on masking and reordering Japanese linguistic units known as bunsetsu, whereas ENSS is proposed based on phrase structure masking and reordering tasks. Experiments on ASPEC Japanese--English & Japanese--Chinese, Wikipedia Japanese--Chinese, News English--Korean corpora demonstrate that JASS and ENSS outperform MASS and other existing language-agnostic pre-training methods by up to +2.9 BLEU points for the Japanese--English tasks, up to +7.0 BLEU points for the Japanese--Chinese tasks and up to +1.3 BLEU points for English--Korean tasks. Empirical analysis, which focuses on the relationship between individual parts in JASS and ENSS, reveals the complementary nature of the subtasks of JASS and ENSS. Adequacy evaluation using LASER, human evaluation, and case studies reveals that our proposed methods significantly outperform pre-training methods without injected linguistic knowledge and they have a larger positive impact on the adequacy as compared to the fluency. We release codes here: https://github.com/Mao-KU/JASS/tree/master/linguistically-driven-pretraining.

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