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Decoding Strategies for Improving Low-Resource Machine Translation

Authors
Park, ChanjunYang, YeongwookPark, KinamLim, Heuiseok
Issue Date
10월-2020
Publisher
MDPI
Keywords
neural machine translation; Korean& #8211; English neural machine translation; transformer; efficiency processing; post-processing; decoding strategies
Citation
ELECTRONICS, v.9, no.10
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SCIE
SCOPUS
Journal Title
ELECTRONICS
Volume
9
Number
10
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/52651
DOI
10.3390/electronics9101562
ISSN
2079-9292
Abstract
Pre-processing and post-processing are significant aspects of natural language processing (NLP) application software. Pre-processing in neural machine translation (NMT) includes subword tokenization to alleviate the problem of unknown words, parallel corpus filtering that only filters data suitable for training, and data augmentation to ensure that the corpus contains sufficient content. Post-processing includes automatic post editing and the application of various strategies during decoding in the translation process. Most recent NLP researches are based on the Pretrain-Finetuning Approach (PFA). However, when small and medium-sized organizations with insufficient hardware attempt to provide NLP services, throughput and memory problems often occur. These difficulties increase when utilizing PFA to process low-resource languages, as PFA requires large amounts of data, and the data for low-resource languages are often insufficient. Utilizing the current research premise that NMT model performance can be enhanced through various pre-processing and post-processing strategies without changing the model, we applied various decoding strategies to Korean-English NMT, which relies on a low-resource language pair. Through comparative experiments, we proved that translation performance could be enhanced without changes to the model. We experimentally examined how performance changed in response to beam size changes and n-gram blocking, and whether performance was enhanced when a length penalty was applied. The results showed that various decoding strategies enhance the performance and compare well with previous Korean-English NMT approaches. Therefore, the proposed methodology can improve the performance of NMT models, without the use of PFA; this presents a new perspective for improving machine translation performance.
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