2019 ACL ACL 2019

Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation

Abstract

AbstractWe present a simple new method where an emergent NMT system is used for simultaneously selecting training data and learning internal NMT representations. This is done in a self-supervised way without parallel data, in such a way that both tasks enhance each other during training. The method is language independent, introduces no additional hyper-parameters, and achieves BLEU scores of 29.21 (en2fr) and 27.36 (fr2en) on newstest2014 using English and French Wikipedia data for training.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
📈 Trend Setter — Machine Translation
🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird — self-supervised learning
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Speech & Audio