Models and Inference for Prefix-Constrained Machine Translation
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چکیده
We apply phrase-based and neural models to a core task in interactive machine translation: suggesting how to complete a partial translation. For the phrase-based system, we demonstrate improvements in suggestion quality using novel objective functions, learning techniques, and inference algorithms tailored to this task. Our contributions include new tunable metrics, an improved beam search strategy, an n-best extraction method that increases suggestion diversity, and a tuning procedure for a hierarchical joint model of alignment and translation. The combination of these techniques improves next-word suggestion accuracy dramatically from 28.5% to 41.2% in a large-scale English-German experiment. Our recurrent neural translation system increases accuracy yet further to 53.0%, but inference is two orders of magnitude slower. Manual error analysis shows the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches.
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