From Simultaneous to Streaming Machine Translation by Leveraging Streaming History

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02459v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 17:41:45 GMT
• Title: From Simultaneous to Streaming Machine Translation by Leveraging Streaming History
• Authors: Javier Iranzo-S\'anchez and Jorge Civera and Alfons Juan
• Abstract summary: Simultaneous Machine Translation is the task of incrementally translating an input sentence before it is fully available. Streaming MT can be understood as an extension of Simultaneous MT to the incremental translation of a continuous input text stream. In this work, a state-of-the-art simultaneous sentence-level MT system is extended to the streaming setup by leveraging the streaming history.
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• Abstract: Simultaneous Machine Translation is the task of incrementally translating an input sentence before it is fully available. Currently, simultaneous translation is carried out by translating each sentence independently of the previously translated text. More generally, Streaming MT can be understood as an extension of Simultaneous MT to the incremental translation of a continuous input text stream. In this work, a state-of-the-art simultaneous sentence-level MT system is extended to the streaming setup by leveraging the streaming history. Extensive empirical results are reported on IWSLT Translation Tasks, showing that leveraging the streaming history leads to significant quality gains. In particular, the proposed system proves to compare favorably to the best performing systems.

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