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Register a new userNoisy UGC Translation at the Character Level: Revisiting Open-Vocabulary Capabilities and Robustness of Char-Based Models
الترجمة UGC صاخبة على مستوى الطابع: إعادة النظر في قدرات المفردات المفتوحة وأغاني النماذج المستندة إلى Char
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يستكشف هذا العمل قدرات الترجمة الآلية العصبية القائمة على الأحرف لترجمة المحتوى الناتج عن المستخدم الصاخب (UGC) مع التركيز القوي على استكشاف حدود هذه الأساليب للتعامل مع ظواهر UGC الإنتاجية، والتي بحكم تعريفها تقريبا، لا يمكن رؤيتها في وقت التدريبوبعدضمن سيناريو صاروخي صاروخي بالرصاص، نقوم أولا بدراسة التأثير الضار على أداء الترجمة من مختلف ظواهر المحتوى التي تم إنشاؤها من قبل المستخدم على مجموعة بيانات صغيرة مشروحة، وظهرت بعد ذلك أن هذه النماذج غير قادرة بالفعل على التعامل مع الحروف غير المعروفة، مما يؤدي إلى ترجمة كارثيةالفشل بمجرد مواجهة هذه الشخصيات.نحن نؤكد مزيدا من السلوك بتجربة مهمة بسيطة ولكنها ثاقبة وتسليط الضوء على أهمية تقليل حجم المفردات Hyper-Parameter لزيادة متانة النماذج القائمة على الأحرف للترجمة الآلية.
This work explores the capacities of character-based Neural Machine Translation to translate noisy User-Generated Content (UGC) with a strong focus on exploring the limits of such approaches to handle productive UGC phenomena, which almost by definition, cannot be seen at training time. Within a strict zero-shot scenario, we first study the detrimental impact on translation performance of various user-generated content phenomena on a small annotated dataset we developed and then show that such models are indeed incapable of handling unknown letters, which leads to catastrophic translation failure once such characters are encountered. We further confirm this behavior with a simple, yet insightful, copy task experiment and highlight the importance of reducing the vocabulary size hyper-parameter to increase the robustness of character-based models for machine translation.
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