Modeling Dual Read/Write Paths for Simultaneous Machine Translation (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) outputs translation while reading source sentence . existing methods do not direct the read/write path, resulting in poor performance . |
| Approach: | They propose a method which introduces duality constraints to direct the read/write path . they propose to map the read path in two SiMT models to satisfy duality constraint . |
| Outcome: | Experiments on En-Vi and De-En tasks show that the proposed method outperforms baselines under all latency. |
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