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Neural Machine Translation Decoding with Terminology Constraints

arXiv 1805.03750 ↗First posted 9 May 2018cs.CLcited by 36

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Abstract (arXiv)

Despite the impressive quality improvements yielded by neural machine translation (NMT) systems, controlling their translation output to adhere to user-provided terminology constraints remains an open problem. We describe our approach to constrained neural decoding based on finite-state machines and multi-stack decoding which supports target-side constraints as well as constraints with corresponding 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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  11. 2021Encouraging Neural Machine Translation to Satisfy Terminology Constraintscited by 10
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  10. 2024Optimizing Rare Word Accuracy in Direct Speech Translation with a Retrieval-and-Demonstration Approachcited by 3
  11. 2025Locate-and-Focus: Enhancing Terminology Translation in Speech Language Modelscited by 3
  12. 2021CUNI systems for WMT21: Terminology translation Shared Taskcited by 2
  13. 2022Accurate Online Posterior Alignments for Principled Lexically-Constrained Decodingcited by 1
  14. 2023Disambiguated Lexically Constrained Neural Machine Translationcited by 1
  15. 2023Negative Lexical Constraints in Neural Machine Translationcited by 1
  16. 2024On Translating Technical Terminology: A Translation Workflow for Machine-Translated Acronymscited by 1
  17. 2024Efficient Technical Term Translation: A Knowledge Distillation Approach for Parenthetical Terminology Translationcited by 1
  18. 2024Towards Global AI Inclusivity: A Large-Scale Multilingual Terminology Dataset (GIST)cited by 1
  19. 2021Bilingual Terminology Extraction from Comparable E-Commerce Corporacited by 0
  20. 2022A Template-based Method for Constrained Neural Machine Translationcited by 0
  21. 2022Open Terminology Management and Sharing Toolkit for Federation of Terminology Databasescited by 0
  22. 2022The University of Edinburgh's Submission to the WMT22 Code-Mixing Shared Task (MixMT)cited by 0
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  24. 2025Attention2Probability: Attention-Driven Terminology Probability Estimation for Robust Speech-to-Text Systemcited by 0