An Empirical study of Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation: analyzing NMT output, model's behavior and sentences' contribution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12588v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:35:08 GMT
• Title: An Empirical study of Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation: analyzing NMT output, model's behavior and sentences' contribution
• Authors: Isidora Chara Tourni, Derry Wijaya
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data. We focus on three very diverse languages, French, Gujarati, and Kazakh, and train bilingual NMT models, to and from English, with various levels of supervision.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised methods and analyzing its output in aspects other than translation accuracy. We focus on three very diverse languages, French, Gujarati, and Kazakh, and train bilingual NMT models, to and from English, with various levels of supervision, in high- and low- resource setups, measure quality of the NMT output and compare the generated sequences' word order and semantic similarity to source and reference sentences. We also use Layer-wise Relevance Propagation to evaluate the source and target sentences' contribution to the result, expanding the findings of previous works to the UNMT paradigm.

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