Simultaneous translation policies: From fixed to adaptive

B Zheng, K Liu, R Zheng, M Ma, H Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13169, 2020arxiv.org
Adaptive policies are better than fixed policies for simultaneous translation, since they can
flexibly balance the tradeoff between translation quality and latency based on the current
context information. But previous methods on obtaining adaptive policies either rely on
complicated training process, or underperform simple fixed policies. We design an algorithm
to achieve adaptive policies via a simple heuristic composition of a set of fixed policies.
Experiments on Chinese-> English and German-> English show that our adaptive policies …
Adaptive policies are better than fixed policies for simultaneous translation, since they can flexibly balance the tradeoff between translation quality and latency based on the current context information. But previous methods on obtaining adaptive policies either rely on complicated training process, or underperform simple fixed policies. We design an algorithm to achieve adaptive policies via a simple heuristic composition of a set of fixed policies. Experiments on Chinese -> English and German -> English show that our adaptive policies can outperform fixed ones by up to 4 BLEU points for the same latency, and more surprisingly, it even surpasses the BLEU score of full-sentence translation in the greedy mode (and very close to beam mode), but with much lower latency.
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