Neural Machine Translation Decoding with Terminology Constraints


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Hasler, eva 
de Gspert, Adrià 
Iglesias, Gonzalo 
Byrne, WJ 
Abstract

Despite the impressive quality improvements yielded by neural machine translation (NMT) systems, controlling their translation output to adhere to user-provided terminology con- straints remains an open problem. We describe our approach to constrained neural decod- ing based on finite-state machines and multi- stack decoding which supports target-side con- straints as well as constraints with correspond- ing aligned input text spans. We demonstrate the performance of our framework on multiple translation tasks and motivate the need for constrained decoding with attentions as a means of reducing misplacement and duplication when translating user constraints.

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16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L027623/1)