Generating Alignments Using Target Foresight in Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation

Neural machine translation (NMT) has shown large improvements in recent years. The currently most successful approach in this area relies on the attention mechanism, which is often interpreted as an alignment, even though it is computed without explicit knowledge of the target word. This limitation...

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Main Authors: Peter Jan-Thorsten, Nix Arne, Ney Hermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-06-01
Series:Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/pralin-2017-0006