SubCharacter Chinese-English Neural Machine Translation with Wubi encoding
| Autor: | Zhang, Wei, Lin, Feifei, Wang, Xiaodong, Liang, Zhenshuang, Huang, Zhen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Neural machine translation (NMT) is one of the best methods for understanding the differences in semantic rules between two languages. Especially for Indo-European languages, subword-level models have achieved impressive results. However, when the translation task involves Chinese, semantic granularity remains at the word and character level, so there is still need more fine-grained translation model of Chinese. In this paper, we introduce a simple and effective method for Chinese translation at the sub-character level. Our approach uses the Wubi method to translate Chinese into English; byte-pair encoding (BPE) is then applied. Our method for Chinese-English translation eliminates the need for a complicated word segmentation algorithm during preprocessing. Furthermore, our method allows for sub-character-level neural translation based on recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture, without preprocessing. The empirical results show that for Chinese-English translation tasks, our sub-character-level model has a comparable BLEU score to the subword model, despite having a much smaller vocabulary. Additionally, the small vocabulary is highly advantageous for NMT model compression. Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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