2019 EMNLP EMNLP 2019

Controlling Text Complexity in Neural Machine Translation

Abstract

AbstractThis work introduces a machine translation task where the output is aimed at audiences of different levels of target language proficiency. We collect a high quality dataset of news articles available in English and Spanish, written for diverse grade levels and propose a method to align segments across comparable bilingual articles. The resulting dataset makes it possible to train multi-task sequence to sequence models that can translate and simplify text jointly. We show that these multi-task models outperform pipeline approaches that translate and simplify text independently.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
📈 Trend Setter — Text Simplification
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — multi-task sequence-to-sequence model
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — text simplification
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio