How Does Pretraining Improve Discourse-Aware Translation?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19847v1
• Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 13:36:51 GMT
• Title: How Does Pretraining Improve Discourse-Aware Translation?
• Authors: Zhihong Huang, Longyue Wang, Siyou Liu, Derek F. Wong
• Abstract summary: We introduce a probing task to interpret the ability of pretrained language models to capture discourse relation knowledge. We validate three state-of-the-art PLMs across encoder-, decoder-, and encoder-decoder-based models. Our findings are instructive to understand how and when discourse knowledge in PLMs should work for downstream tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Pretrained language models (PLMs) have produced substantial improvements in discourse-aware neural machine translation (NMT), for example, improved coherence in spoken language translation. However, the underlying reasons for their strong performance have not been well explained. To bridge this gap, we introduce a probing task to interpret the ability of PLMs to capture discourse relation knowledge. We validate three state-of-the-art PLMs across encoder-, decoder-, and encoder-decoder-based models. The analysis shows that (1) the ability of PLMs on discourse modelling varies from architecture and layer; (2) discourse elements in a text lead to different learning difficulties for PLMs. Besides, we investigate the effects of different PLMs on spoken language translation. Through experiments on IWSLT2017 Chinese-English dataset, we empirically reveal that NMT models initialized from different layers of PLMs exhibit the same trends with the probing task. Our findings are instructive to understand how and when discourse knowledge in PLMs should work for downstream tasks.

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