Turning Fixed to Adaptive: Integrating Post-Evaluation into Simultaneous Machine Translation (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to perform adaptive and fixed translations lack evaluation before taking actions. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to perform adaptive translation policy via post-evaluation into fixed policy . their method evaluates rationality of next action by measuring change in source content . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method exceeds strong baselines under all latency. |
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