Knowledge Based Template Machine Translation In Low-Resource Setting

8 Sep 2022  ·  Zilu Tang, Derry Wijaya ·

Incorporating tagging into neural machine translation (NMT) systems has shown promising results in helping translate rare words such as named entities (NE). However, translating NE in low-resource setting remains a challenge. In this work, we investigate the effect of using tags and NE hypernyms from knowledge graphs (KGs) in parallel corpus in different levels of resource conditions. We find the tag-and-copy mechanism (tag the NEs in the source sentence and copy them to the target sentence) improves translation in high-resource settings only. Introducing copying also results in polarizing effects in translating different parts-of-speech (POS). Interestingly, we find that copy accuracy for hypernyms is consistently higher than that of entities. As a way of avoiding "hard" copying and utilizing hypernym in bootstrapping rare entities, we introduced a "soft" tagging mechanism and found consistent improvement in high and low-resource settings.

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