2022.iwslt-1.3@ACL

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#1 Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation with Prefix Alignment [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi1]

Authors: Yasumasa Kano ; Katsuhito Sudoh ; Satoshi Nakamura

Simultaneous translation is a task that requires starting translation before the speaker has finished speaking, so we face a trade-off between latency and accuracy. In this work, we focus on prefix-to-prefix translation and propose a method to extract alignment between bilingual prefix pairs. We use the alignment to segment a streaming input and fine-tune a translation model. The proposed method demonstrated higher BLEU than those of baselines in low latency ranges in our experiments on the IWSLT simultaneous translation benchmark.