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تحويل صفرية نقل عبر اللغات من الترجمة الآلية العصبية مع التشفير المحددين متعدد اللغات
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يركز العمل السابق بشكل رئيسي على تحسين التحويل عبر اللغات لمهام NLU مع ترميز مسبب متعدد اللغات (MPE)، أو تحسين الأداء على الترجمة الآلية الخاضعة للإشراف مع بيرت. ومع ذلك، فقد تم استكشافه أنه ما إذا كان يمكن أن يساعد MPE في تسهيل عملية النقل عبر اللغات لنموذج NMT. في هذه الورقة، نركز على مهمة نقل صفرية عبر اللغات في NMT. في هذه المهمة، يتم تدريب نموذج NMT مع مجموعة بيانات متوازية من زوج لغة واحدة فقط و MPE MPE على الرف، ثم يتم اختباره مباشرة على أزواج لغة الطلقة الصفرية. نقترح Sixt، نموذج بسيط ولكنه فعال لهذه المهمة. يستمتع Sixt بتطوير MPE بجدول تدريبي من مرحلتين ويحصل على مزيد من التحسن في موضع ترميز مفكيك ومكتشف محسن على القدرات. باستخدام هذه الطريقة، يتفوق Sixt بشكل كبير بشكل كبير على MBART، وهو نموذج فك تشفير التركيب متعدد اللغات مسبقا مصممة بشكل صريح ل NMT، مع تحسين متوسط 7.1 بلو على مجموعات اختبار صفرية عبر الإنترنت عبر 14 لغة مصدر. علاوة على ذلك، مع وجود بيانات تدريبية وتدريبية أقل بكثير من البيانات، يحقق نموذجنا أداء أفضل في 15 مجموعة اختبار من أي إلى الإنجليزية من Criss و M2M-100، خطين قويين متعدد اللغات NMT.
Previous work mainly focuses on improving cross-lingual transfer for NLU tasks with a multilingual pretrained encoder (MPE), or improving the performance on supervised machine translation with BERT. However, it is under-explored that whether the MPE can help to facilitate the cross-lingual transferability of NMT model. In this paper, we focus on a zero-shot cross-lingual transfer task in NMT. In this task, the NMT model is trained with parallel dataset of only one language pair and an off-the-shelf MPE, then it is directly tested on zero-shot language pairs. We propose SixT, a simple yet effective model for this task. SixT leverages the MPE with a two-stage training schedule and gets further improvement with a position disentangled encoder and a capacity-enhanced decoder. Using this method, SixT significantly outperforms mBART, a pretrained multilingual encoder-decoder model explicitly designed for NMT, with an average improvement of 7.1 BLEU on zero-shot any-to-English test sets across 14 source languages. Furthermore, with much less training computation cost and training data, our model achieves better performance on 15 any-to-English test sets than CRISS and m2m-100, two strong multilingual NMT baselines.
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