2021.iwslt-1.3@ACL

#1 NAIST English-to-Japanese Simultaneous Translation System for IWSLT 2021 Simultaneous Text-to-text Task [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi¹]

Authors: Ryo Fukuda ; Yui Oka ; Yasumasa Kano ; Yuki Yano ; Yuka Ko ; Hirotaka Tokuyama ; Kosuke Doi ; Sakriani Sakti ; Katsuhito Sudoh ; Satoshi Nakamura

This paper describes NAIST’s system for the English-to-Japanese Simultaneous Text-to-text Translation Task in IWSLT 2021 Evaluation Campaign. Our primary submission is based on wait-k neural machine translation with sequence-level knowledge distillation to encourage literal translation.