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Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation

Computation and Language 2018-05-08 v1

Abstract

We present an approach to neural machine translation (NMT) that supports multiple domains in a single model and allows switching between the domains when translating. The core idea is to treat text domains as distinct languages and use multilingual NMT methods to create multi-domain translation systems, we show that this approach results in significant translation quality gains over fine-tuning. We also explore whether the knowledge of pre-specified text domains is necessary, turns out that it is after all, but also that when it is not known quite high translation quality can be reached.

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@article{arxiv.1805.02282,
  title  = {Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation},
  author = {Sander Tars and Mark Fishel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.02282},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted to EAMT'2018, In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT'2018)

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