Instance-Based Domain Adaptation for Improving Terminology Translation

Prashanth Nayak, Rejwanul Haque, John D. Kelleher, Andy Way

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Abstract

Terms are essential indicators of a domain, and domain term translation is dealt with priority in any translation workflow. Translation service providers who use machine translation (MT) expect term translation to be unambiguous and consistent with the context and domain in question. Although current state-of-the-art neural MT (NMT) models are able to produce high-quality translations for many languages, they are still not at the level required when it comes to translating domain-specific terms. This study presents a terminology-aware instance-based adaptation method for improving terminology translation in NMT. We conducted our experiments for French-to-English and found that our proposed approach achieves a statistically significant improvement over the baseline NMT system in translating domain-specific terms. Specifically, the translation of multi-word terms is improved by 6.7% over a strong baseline.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Track
EditorsMasao Utiyama, Rui Wang
PublisherAsia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation
Pages222-234
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9780000000002
Publication statusPublished - 08 Sep 2023
Event19th Machine Translation Summit, MT Summit 2023 - Macau, China
Duration: 04 Sep 202308 Sep 2023

Publication series

NameMT Summit 2023 - Proceedings of 19th Machine Translation Summit
Volume1

Conference

Conference19th Machine Translation Summit, MT Summit 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacau
Period04/09/202308/09/2023

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