Search Results for author: Marlies van der Wees

Found 9 papers, 1 papers with code

Understanding Multi-Head Attention in Abstractive Summarization

no code implementations10 Nov 2019 Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve, Marlies van der Wees, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke

Finally, we find that relative positions heads seem integral to summarization performance and persistently remain after pruning.

Abstractive Text Summarization Machine Translation +1

Do Transformer Attention Heads Provide Transparency in Abstractive Summarization?

no code implementations1 Jul 2019 Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve, Marlies van der Wees, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke

We investigate whether distributions calculated by different attention heads in a transformer architecture can be used to improve transparency in the task of abstractive summarization.

Abstractive Text Summarization valid

Dynamic Data Selection for Neural Machine Translation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2017 Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz

Intelligent selection of training data has proven a successful technique to simultaneously increase training efficiency and translation performance for phrase-based machine translation (PBMT).

Machine Translation NMT +1

A Simple but Effective Approach to Improve Arabizi-to-English Statistical Machine Translation

no code implementations WS 2016 Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz

A major challenge for statistical machine translation (SMT) of Arabic-to-English user-generated text is the prevalence of text written in Arabizi, or Romanized Arabic.

Translation Transliteration

Measuring the Effect of Conversational Aspects on Machine Translation Quality

no code implementations COLING 2016 Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz

Finally, we find that male speakers are harder to translate and use more vulgar language than female speakers, and that vulgarity is often not preserved during translation.

Machine Translation Translation

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