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Multi-representation Ensembles and Delayed SGD Updates Improve Syntax-based NMT

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De Gispert, Adrià 
Byrne, WJ 

Abstract

We explore strategies for incorporating target syntax into Neural Machine Translation. We specifically focus on syntax in ensembles containing multiple sentence representations. We formulate beam search over such ensembles using WFSTs, and describe a delayed SGD update training procedure that is especially effective for long representations like linearized syntax. Our approach gives state-of-the-art performance on a difficult Japanese-English task.

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machine translation, neural machine translation

Journal Title

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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ACL 2018: 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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P18-2051

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Association for Computational Linguistics
Sponsorship
EPSRC (1632937)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L027623/1)
This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/L027623/1.