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Towards Multimodal Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation

2020-04-07 08:02:21
Aizhan Imankulova, Masahiro Kaneko, Tosho Hirasawa, Mamoru Komachi

Abstract

Simultaneous translation involves translating a sentence before the speaker's utterance is completed in order to realize real-time understanding in multiple languages. This task is significantly harder than the general full sentence translation because of the shortage of input information during decoding. To alleviate this shortage, we propose multimodal simultaneous neural machine translation (MSNMT) which leverages visual information as an additional modality. Although the usefulness of images as an additional modality is moderate for full sentence translation, we verified, for the first time, its importance for simultaneous translation. Our experiments with the Multi30k dataset showed that MSNMT in a simultaneous setting significantly outperforms its text-only counterpart in situations where 5 or fewer input tokens are needed to begin translation. We then verified the importance of visual information during decoding by (a) performing an adversarial evaluation of MSNMT where we studied how models behave with incongruent input modality and (b) analyzing the image attention.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03180

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03180.pdf


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