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Latent Attribute Based Hierarchical Decoder for Neural Machine Translation | |
Liu,Xuebo1; Wong,Derek F.1; Chao,Lidia S.1; Liu,Yang2 | |
2019-12-01 | |
Source Publication | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing |
ISSN | 2329-9290 |
Volume | 27Issue:12Pages:2103-2112 |
Abstract | Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved state-of-the-art performance in many translation tasks. However, because the computational cost increases with the size of the search space for predicting the target words, the translation quality of NMT is constrained by the limited vocabulary. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel dynamic hierarchical decoder for NMT to utilize all of the target words in the training and decoding process. In the proposed model, a target word is represented by two latent attribute vectors rather than a word vector. The model is trained to dynamically put together those words that share similar linguistic attributes. The prediction of a target word is, therefore, turned into the prediction of attribute vectors, where the softmax functions are performed at the attribute level. This greatly reduces the model size and the decoding time. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model significantly outperforms the NMT baselines in both Chinese-English and English-German translation tasks. |
Keyword | Hierarchical Decoder Latent Attribute Limited Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation (Nmt) |
DOI | 10.1109/TASLP.2019.2941587 |
URL | View the original |
Indexed By | SCIE |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Acoustics ; Engineering |
WOS Subject | Acoustics ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic |
WOS ID | WOS:000495027300002 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85073061579 |
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Document Type | Journal article |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE |
Corresponding Author | Wong,Derek F. |
Affiliation | 1.Natural Language Processing and Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation (NLP2CT) Laboratory,University of Macau,Macao 2.Department of Computer Science and Technology,Tsinghua University,Beijing,100084,China |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Liu,Xuebo,Wong,Derek F.,Chao,Lidia S.,et al. Latent Attribute Based Hierarchical Decoder for Neural Machine Translation[J]. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 2019, 27(12), 2103-2112. |
APA | Liu,Xuebo., Wong,Derek F.., Chao,Lidia S.., & Liu,Yang (2019). Latent Attribute Based Hierarchical Decoder for Neural Machine Translation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 27(12), 2103-2112. |
MLA | Liu,Xuebo,et al."Latent Attribute Based Hierarchical Decoder for Neural Machine Translation".IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing 27.12(2019):2103-2112. |
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