Joint Training for Neural Machine Translation

by Yong Cheng

Overview

This book presents four approaches to jointly training bidirectional neural machine translation (NMT) models. First, in order to improve the accuracy of the attention mechanism, it proposes an agreement-based joint training approach to help the two complementary models agree on word alignment matrices for the same training data. Second, it presents a semi-supervised approach that uses an autoencoder to reconstruct monolingual corpora, so as to incorporate these corpora into neural machine translation. It then introduces a joint training algorithm for pivot-based neural machine translation, which can be used to mitigate the data scarcity problem. Lastly it describes an end-to-end bidirectional NMT model to connect the source-to-target and target-to-source translation models, allowing the interaction of parameters between these two directional models.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813297470
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	08/26/2019
Series:	Springer Theses
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	78
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yong Cheng is currently a software engineer engaged in research at Google. Before joining Google, he worked as a senior researcher at Tencent AI Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University in 2017. His research interests focus on neural machine translation and natural language processing.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Neural Machine Translation.- 3. Agreement-based Joint Training for Bidirectional Attention-based Neural Machine Translation.- 4. Semi-supervised Learning for Neural Machine Translation.- 5. Joint Training for Pivot-based Neural Machine Translation.- 6. Joint Modeling for Bidirectional Neural Machine Translation with Contrastive Learning.- 7. Related Work.- 8. Conclusion.