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Rejuvenating low-frequency words: Making the most of parallel data in non-autoregressive translation | |
Liang Ding1; Longyue Wang2; Xuebo Liu3; Derek F. Wong3; Dacheng Tao4; Zhaopeng Tu2 | |
2021 | |
Conference Name | The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) |
Source Publication | ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference |
Pages | 3431-3441 |
Conference Date | 08-2021 |
Conference Place | Virtual |
Publication Place | USA |
Publisher | ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL |
Abstract | Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly used to construct synthetic data for training non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models. However, there exists a discrepancy on low-frequency words between the distilled and the original data, leading to more errors on predicting low-frequency words. To alleviate the problem, we directly expose the raw data into NAT by leveraging pretraining. By analyzing directed alignments, we found that KD makes low-frequency source words aligned with targets more deterministically but fails to align sufficient low-frequency words from target to source. Accordingly, we propose reverse KD to rejuvenate more alignments for low-frequency target words. To make the most of authentic and synthetic data, we combine these complementary approaches as a new training strategy for further boosting NAT performance. We conduct experiments on five translation benchmarks over two advanced architectures. Results demonstrate that the proposed approach can significantly and universally improve translation quality by reducing translation errors on low-frequency words. Encouragingly, our approach achieves 28.2 and 33.9 BLEU points on the WMT14 English-German and WMT16 Romanian-English datasets, respectively. Our code, data, and trained models are available at https://github.com/longyuewangdcu/RLFW-NAT. |
DOI | 10.48550/arXiv.2106.00903 |
URL | View the original |
Language | 英語English |
WOS Research Area | Computer Science ; Linguistics |
WOS Subject | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Linguistics |
WOS ID | WOS:000698679200066 |
Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85117843085 |
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Document Type | Conference paper |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE |
Corresponding Author | Liang Ding |
Affiliation | 1.The University of Sydney, Australia 2.Tencent AI Lab, 3.University of Macau, Macao 4.JD Explore Academy, JD.com, |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Liang Ding,Longyue Wang,Xuebo Liu,et al. Rejuvenating low-frequency words: Making the most of parallel data in non-autoregressive translation[C], USA:ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL, 2021, 3431-3441. |
APA | Liang Ding., Longyue Wang., Xuebo Liu., Derek F. Wong., Dacheng Tao., & Zhaopeng Tu (2021). Rejuvenating low-frequency words: Making the most of parallel data in non-autoregressive translation. ACL-IJCNLP 2021 - 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 3431-3441. |
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