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Non-autoregressive method for Uyghur-Chinese neural machine translation
ZHU Xiangrong, WANG Lei, YANG Yating, DONG Rui, ZHANG Jun
Journal of Computer Applications    2020, 40 (7): 1891-1895.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2019111974
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Although the existing autoregressive translation models based on recurrent neural network, convolutional neural network or Transformer have good translation performance, they have the problem of low translation speed due to low decoding parallelism. Therefore, a non-autoregressive model based learning rate optimization strategy was proposed. On the basis of the non-autoregressive sequence model based on iterative optimization, the learning rate adjustment method was changed, which means that warm up was replaced with liner annealing. Firstly, liner annealing was evaluated to be better than warm up; then liner annealing was applied to the non-autoregressive sequence model in order to obtain the optimal balance between translation quality and decoding speed; finally a comparison between this method and the method of autoregressive model was carried out. Experimental results show that compared with the autoregressive model Transformer, when the decoding speed is increased by 2.74 times, this method has the BiLingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) score value of translation quality of 41.31, which reached 95.34% of that of the Transformer. It can be seen that the non-autoregressive sequence model of liner annealing can effectively improve the decoding speed under the condition of reducing a little translation quality, which is suitable for the platforms with urgent need for translation speed.
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Reordering table reconstruction model for Chinese-Uyghur machine translation
PAN Yirong, LI Xiao, YANG Yating, MI Chenggang, DONG Rui
Journal of Computer Applications    2018, 38 (5): 1283-1288.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017102455
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Focused on the issue that lexicalized reordering models are faced with context independence and sparsity problems in machine translation, a reordering table reconstruction model based on semantic content for reordering orientation and probability prediction was proposed. Firstly, continuous distributed representation approach was employed to acquire the feature vectors of reordering rules. Secondly, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) were utilized to predict the reordering orientation and probability of each reordering rule that represented with dense vectors. Finally, the original reordering table was filtered and reconstructed with more reasonable reordering probability distribution for the purpose of improving the reordering information accuracy in reordering model as well as reducing the size of the reordering table to speed up subsequent decoding process. The experimental results show that the reordering table reconstruction model can provide BLEU point gains (+0.39) for Chinese to Uyghur machine translation task.
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