Prompting Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memories
Abstract
Improving machine translation (MT) systems with translation memories (TMs) is of great interest to practitioners in the MT community. However, previous approaches require either a significant update of the model architecture and/or additional training efforts to make the models well-behaved when TMs are taken as additional input. In this paper, we present a simple but effective method to introduce TMs into neural machine translation (NMT) systems. Specifically, we treat TMs as prompts to the NMT model at test time, but leave the training process unchanged. The result is a slight update of an existing NMT system, which can be implemented in a few hours by anyone who is familiar with NMT. Experimental results on several datasets demonstrate that our system significantly outperforms strong baselines.
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Reheman et al. "Prompting Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memories." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V37I11.26585Markdown
[Reheman et al. "Prompting Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memories." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2023/reheman2023aaai-prompting/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V37I11.26585BibTeX
@inproceedings{reheman2023aaai-prompting,
title = {{Prompting Neural Machine Translation with Translation Memories}},
author = {Reheman, Abudurexiti and Zhou, Tao and Luo, Yingfeng and Yang, Di and Xiao, Tong and Zhu, Jingbo},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2023},
pages = {13519-13527},
doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V37I11.26585},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2023/reheman2023aaai-prompting/}
}