Hi,
the short answer to your problem would be, that the typical encoder decoder models are not really meant to do what you want it to do, there is however interesting new work on archive:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01874

which could exactly solve your problem. However, I am always weary of results of that particular group of researchers. It seems reproducing their results for anything but Chinese does not really work, also their train sets are really small, so it is not clear what the effects really are. Maybe those models are just dealing better with smaller data.
Best,
Marcin



W dniu 24/11/16 o 10:22, Nat Gillin pisze:
Dear Moses Community,

This seems to be prickly topic to discuss but my experiments on a different kind of data set than WMT or WAT (workshop for asian translation) has not been able to achieve the stella scores that the recent advancement in MT has been reporting.

Using state-of-art encoder-attention-decoder framework, just by running things like lamtram or tensorflow, I'm unable to beat Moses' scores from sentences that appears both in the train and test data.

Imagine it's a translator using MT and somehow he/she has translated the sentence before and just wants the exact translation. A TM would solve the problem and Moses surely could emulate the TM but NMT tends to go overly creative and produces something else. Although it is consistent in giving the same output for the same sentence, it's just unable to regurgitate the sentence that was seen in the training data. In that matter, Moses does it pretty well.

For sentences that is not in train but in test, NMT does fairly the same or sometimes better than Moses.

So the question is 'has anyone encounter similar problems?' Is the solution simply to do a fetch in the train set before translating? Or a system/output chooser to rerank outputs?

Are there any other ways to resolve such a problem? What could have happened such that NMT is not "remembering"? (Maybe it needs some memberberries)

Any tips/hints/discussion on this is much appreciated.

Regards,
Nat


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