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Improving tree-based neural machine translation with dynamic lexicalized dependency encoding

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Baosong Yang
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Derek F. Wong *
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Lidia S. Chao
张民 (Min Zhang)
DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105042delete
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Tree-to-sequence neural machine translation models have proven to be effective in learning the semantic representations from the exploited syntactic structure. Despite their success, tree-to-sequence models have two major issues: (1) the embeddings of constituents at the higher tree levels tend to contribute less in translation; and (2) using a single set of model parameters is difficult to fully capture the syntactic and semantic richness of linguistic phrases. To address the first problem, we proposed a lexicalized dependency model, in which the source-side lexical representations are learned in a head-dependent fashion following a dependency graph. Since the number of dependents is variable, we proposed a variant recurrent neural network (RNN) to jointly consider the long-distance dependencies and the sequential information of words. Concerning the second problem, we adopt a latent vector to dynamically condition the parameters for the composition of each node representation. Experimental results reveal that the proposed model significantly outperforms the recently proposed tree-based methods in English-Chinese and English-German translation tasks with even far fewer parameters. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Syntactic modeling
Dynamic parameters
Tree-RNN
Neural machine translation (NMT)
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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University of Macau
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soochow university - china
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