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A Scenario-Generic Neural Machine Translation Data Augmentation Method

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Liu, Xiner, He, Jianshu, Liu, Mingzhe, Yin, Zhengtong, Yin, Lirong, Zheng, Wenfeng·2023·Electronics

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Amid the rapid advancement of neural machine translation, the challenge of data sparsity has been a major obstacle. To address this issue, this study proposes a general data augmentation technique for various scenarios. It examines the predicament of parallel corpora diversity and high quality in both rich- and low-resource settings, and integrates the low-frequency word substitution method and reverse translation approach for complementary benefits. Additionally, this method improves the pseudo-parallel corpus generated by the reverse translation method by substituting low-frequency words and includes a grammar error correction module to reduce grammatical errors in low-resource scenarios. The experimental data are partitioned into rich- and low-resource scenarios at a 10:1 ratio. It verifies the necessity of grammatical error correction for pseudo-corpus in low-resource scenarios. Models and methods are chosen from the backbone network and related literature for comparative experiments. The experimental findings demonstrate that the data augmentation approach proposed in this study is suitable for both rich- and low-resource scenarios and is effective in enhancing the training corpus to improve the performance of translation tasks.

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Authors
Liu, X., He, J., Liu, M., Yin, Z., Yin, L., & Zheng, W.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
  • Wenzhou University of Technology (CN)
  • Guizhou University (CN)
  • Louisiana State University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Liu, Mingzhe
  • Zheng, Wenfeng
Venue
Electronics
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2023-05-21
Volume
12
Issue
10
Pages
2320
ISSN
2079-9292 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4377291249
Cited by
78
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 45
FWCI
6.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
Electronics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2021YFQ0003, 2023YFSY0026, 2023YFH0004)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Keywords
neural machine translation, data augmentation, low-resource translation, data sparsity, reverse translation, grammatical error correction

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