04/07/2020

A Simple and Effective Unified Encoder for Document-Level Machine Translation

Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Ming Zhou

Keywords: Document-Level Translation, Unified Encoder, encoders, pre-training models

Abstract: Most of the existing models for document-level machine translation adopt dual-encoder structures. The representation of the source sentences and the document-level contexts (In this work, document-level contexts denote the surrounding sentences of the current source sentence.) are modeled with two separate encoders. Although these models can make use of the document-level contexts, they do not fully model the interaction between the contexts and the source sentences, and can not directly adapt to the recent pre-training models (e.g., BERT) which encodes multiple sentences with a single encoder. In this work, we propose a simple and effective unified encoder that can outperform the baseline models of dual-encoder models in terms of BLEU and METEOR scores. Moreover, the pre-training models can further boost the performance of our proposed model.

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