Bilingual Synchronization: Restoring Translational Relationships with Editing Operations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13163v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:25:44 GMT
• Title: Bilingual Synchronization: Restoring Translational Relationships with Editing Operations
• Authors: Jitao Xu, Josep Crego, Fran\c{c}ois Yvon
• Abstract summary: We consider a more general setting which assumes an initial target sequence, that must be transformed into a valid translation of the source. Our results suggest that one single generic edit-based system, once fine-tuned, can compare with, or even outperform, dedicated systems specifically trained for these tasks.
• Score: 2.0411082897313984
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine Translation (MT) is usually viewed as a one-shot process that generates the target language equivalent of some source text from scratch. We consider here a more general setting which assumes an initial target sequence, that must be transformed into a valid translation of the source, thereby restoring parallelism between source and target. For this bilingual synchronization task, we consider several architectures (both autoregressive and non-autoregressive) and training regimes, and experiment with multiple practical settings such as simulated interactive MT, translating with Translation Memory (TM) and TM cleaning. Our results suggest that one single generic edit-based system, once fine-tuned, can compare with, or even outperform, dedicated systems specifically trained for these tasks.

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