Computer Science ›› 2020, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2): 163-168.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.190100048

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Neural Machine Translation Combining Source Semantic Roles

QIAO Bo-wen,LI Jun-hui   

  1. (School of Computer Science and Technology,Soochow University,Suzhou,Jiangsu 215006,China)
  • Received:2019-01-07 Online:2020-02-15 Published:2020-03-18
  • About author:QIAO Bo-wen,born in 1994,postgra-duate.His main research interests include machine translation and so on;LI Jun-hui,born in 1983,Ph.D,asso-ciate professor.His main research inte-rests include machine translation and natural language processing.
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61876120).

Abstract: With the rapid development of deep learning in recent years,neural machine translation combining deep learning has gradually replaced statistical machine translation and becomes the mainstream machine translation method in the academic circle.However,the traditional neural machine translation regards the source-side sentence as a word sequence and does not take into account the implicit semantic information of sentences,resulting in the inconsistency between the translation results and source-side semantics.To solve this problem,some linguistic knowledges,such as syntax and semantics,are applied to neural machine translation and achieve good experimental results.Semantic roles can also be used to express the semantic information of sentences and have a certain application value in neural machine translation.This paper proposed two neural machine translation encoding models that incorporate semantic role information of sentences.On the one hand,semantic role played by labels are added to the word sequences to mark the semantic role played by each wordin the sentence.The semantic role labels and source-side words together constitute the word sequence.On the other hand,by constructing the semantic role tree of source sentences,the position information of each word in the semantic role tree is obtained,which is spliced with the word vector as a feature vector to form a word vector containing semantic role information.Experimental results on large-scale Chinese-English translation show that,compared with the baseline system,the two methods proposed in this paper not only improve 0.9 BLEU points and 0.72 BLEU points on average in all test sets respectively,but also improve performance in other evaluation indexes,such as TER (Translation Edit Rate) and RIBES (Rank-based Intuitive Bilingual Evaluation Score).Further experimental analysis shows that the proposed neural machine translation encoding models combining semantic roles have better translation effect on long sentences and translation adequacy than the baseline system.

Key words: Encoding model, Neural machine translation, Semantic feature, Semantic role labeling

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  • TP391
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