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Document Graph for Neural Machine Translation
Xu, Mingzhou1,2; Li, Liangyou2; Wong, Derek F.1; Liu, Qun2; Chao, Lidia S.1
2021
Conference Name2021 CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (EMNLP 2021)
Source PublicationEMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
Pages8435-8448
Conference DateNOV 07-11, 2021
Conference PlacePunta Cana
CountryDOMINICAN REP
Author of SourceAssoc Computat Linguist
Publication PlaceASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, 209 N EIGHTH STREET, STROUDSBURG, PA 18360 USA
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Abstract

Previous works have shown that contextual information can improve the performance of neural machine translation (NMT). However, most existing document-level NMT methods only consider a few number of previous sentences. How to make use of the whole document as global contexts is still a challenge. To address this issue, we hypothesize that a document can be represented as a graph that connects relevant contexts regardless of their distances. We employ several types of relations, including adjacency, syntactic dependency, lexical consistency, and coreference, to construct the document graph. Then, we incorporate both source and target graphs into the conventional Transformer architecture with graph convolutional networks. Experiments on various NMT benchmarks, including IWSLT English-French, Chinese-English, WMT English-German and Opensubtitle English-Russian, demonstrate that using document graphs can significantly improve the translation quality. Extensive analysis verifies that the document graph is beneficial for capturing discourse phenomena.

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Indexed ByCPCI-S ; CPCI-SSH
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Linguistics
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Linguistics
WOS IDWOS:000860727002041
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85127427501
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Document TypeConference paper
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorWong, Derek F.
Affiliation1.NLP2CT Lab, University of Macau
2.Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Xu, Mingzhou,Li, Liangyou,Wong, Derek F.,et al. Document Graph for Neural Machine Translation[C]. Assoc Computat Linguist, ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, 209 N EIGHTH STREET, STROUDSBURG, PA 18360 USA:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021, 8435-8448.
APA Xu, Mingzhou., Li, Liangyou., Wong, Derek F.., Liu, Qun., & Chao, Lidia S. (2021). Document Graph for Neural Machine Translation. EMNLP 2021 - 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings, 8435-8448.
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