TY - GEN
T1 - Smart-Start Decoding for Neural Machine Translation
AU - Yang, Jian
AU - Ma, Shuming
AU - Zhang, Dongdong
AU - Wan, Juncheng
AU - Li, Zhoujun
AU - Zhou, Ming
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Most current neural machine translation models adopt a monotonic decoding order of either left-to-right or right-to-left. In this work, we propose a novel method that breaks up the limitation of these decoding orders, called Smart-Start decoding. More specifically, our method first predicts a median word. It starts to decode the words on the right side of the median word and then generates words on the left. We evaluate the proposed Smart-Start decoding method on three datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly outperform strong baseline models.
AB - Most current neural machine translation models adopt a monotonic decoding order of either left-to-right or right-to-left. In this work, we propose a novel method that breaks up the limitation of these decoding orders, called Smart-Start decoding. More specifically, our method first predicts a median word. It starts to decode the words on the right side of the median word and then generates words on the left. We evaluate the proposed Smart-Start decoding method on three datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed method can significantly outperform strong baseline models.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85117221171
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.312
DO - 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.312
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85117221171
T3 - NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 3982
EP - 3988
BT - NAACL-HLT 2021 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2021
Y2 - 6 June 2021 through 11 June 2021
ER -